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Chinese space crew accomplishes successful spacewalk and solar panel repairs

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting Tiangong space station completed their first extravehicular activities, or spacewalk, at 21:35 on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Three Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin collaborated to pull off all planned tasks with the assistance of the space station's robotic arm and scientific staff on the ground. After their spacewalk which lasted about seven and a half hours, Tang Hongbo and Tang Shengjie returned to the Wentian lab module safely.


Artificial Intelligence Upscales NASA Apollo 17 Moon Footage to 4K

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NASA's Apollo 17 was the final mission of the Apollo program, launching on December 7, 1972 with Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans. Both Cernan and Schmitt walked on the moon, with the latter being the only professional geologist to land on the lunar surface. This mission focused on science, which meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice carried in the command module. Read more to see some footage upscaled by AI-powered neural networks. The footage you see above was captured during lunar orbit revolution 11 with the 16mm film interpolated from 6fps to 24fps with Hasselblad photos.