Launched on Shenzhou 7 just two days before, Zhai Zhigang stepped outside the spacecraft and conducted the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut on September 27, 2008. It only lasted about twenty minutes and was limited in scope. Liu Boming waited in the airlock of the orbital module, in a Russian spacesuit, ready to provide help to Zhigang if necessary.
Jing Haipeng, the third astronaut, stayed in the re-entry module and monitored the situation of the spacecraft.
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