Shenzhou XVI crew completes 1st spacewalk

This was the 13th spacewalk carried out by Chinese astronauts.

Professor Gui Haichao, the third member of the crew and the mission's science payload specialist, stayed inside the space station to provide support, the news release said.

During their spacewalk, Jing and Zhu fulfilled a host of tasks, such as mounting a support frame for a panoramic camera outside the Tianhe core module and unlocking and moving two panoramic cameras outside the Mengtian science module, according to the agency.

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