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Schlegel outside Columbus
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ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel completed his first-ever spacewalk on the second spacewalk of the STS-122 Shuttle mission, lasting six hours and minutes.

Shortly after the spacewalk officially started to 15:27 CET (14:27 UT), Schlegel and NASA astronaut Rex Walheim headed out of the International Space Station’s Quest Airlock. The spacewalkers main task was to replace a nitrogen tank used to pressurise the Station's ammonia cooling system. The replacement of the tank is part of regular Station maintenance. A new nitrogen tank was carried to ISS inside Atlantis’ payload bay.

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Paris, 14 July 2003
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The City of Light, Paris, France (bright grey area), located on the Seine River, is centred on this Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. Also visible in the upper left corner is London, England. To the right is the Strait of Dover that separates England from France and links the English Channel to the North Sea. An interesting feature is the light bluish colour of the sea around the Goodwin Sands area, which is likely to be caused by increased sedimentation. On the French side of the strait is the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Continuing up the north is the small country of Belgium and the city of Brussels. Further north is the Netherlands.

Credits: ESA 2003
 
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