Earlier in the month a robot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was deployed to change over the batteries in its solar-power system, but it couldn't do so without help from a team of spacewalking astronauts. The European Space Agency has now shared a video of the final leg of this upgrade mission, shot from the chest of astronaut Thomas Pesquet as he completed his first ever spacewalk.
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