Cosmonaut Throws Away Obsolete Hardware Into Space During Spacewalk

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During a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev jettisoned a 5-kilogram bundle of obsolete hardware into the vacuum of space.  Credit: NASA | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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00:00If you are sure about the direction of jettison, then yes.

00:09All right.

00:11And there it goes.

00:12Excellent.

00:15All right, bye-bye.

00:19Bye-bye.

00:22Just flies beautifully.

00:26And we are monitoring.

00:27That would be a new star.

00:32Yeah, it's actually quite shiny.

00:40We see the...

00:46Then yes.

00:48All right.

00:50And there it goes.

00:51Excellent.

00:54All right.

00:57Bye-bye.

01:01Just flies beautifully.

01:05And we are monitoring.

01:08That would be a new star.

01:11Yeah, it's actually quite shiny.

01:12Bye-bye.

01:13Bye-bye.

01:14Bye-bye.

01:15Bye-bye.

01:16Bye-bye.

01:17Bye-bye.

01:18Bye-bye.

01:19Bye-bye.

01:20Bye-bye.

01:21Bye-bye.

01:22Bye-bye.

01:23Bye-bye.

01:24Bye-bye.

01:25Bye-bye.

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