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Two Russian cosmonauts are performing a spacewalk outside the ISS to install experiment hardware on the Nauka module and relocate a control panel for the European robotic arm, with the event being streamed live despite a US government shutdown affecting NASA activities.
Chinese astronauts Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu set a new national record by spending 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station during a spacewalk, surpassing previous Chinese spacewalking durations. They installed a space debris protection device and inspected extravehicular equipment. This was the first EVA for the Shenzhou 18 mission, which launched in late April and is expected to conduct numerous scientific experiments and technical tests.