China performs its first spacewalk

Astronaut Zhai Zhigang floats outside the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft, making his country the third to accomplish the feat, after the U.S. and Russia. A Chinese astronaut stepped outside the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft Saturday and waved a small red Chinese flag for the millions of his countrymen watching on live television and cheering over their nation's latest conquest.

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