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🚀 Ever wondered what it feels like to step outside a spacecraft, floating hundreds of miles above Earth? 🌍✨ This is a spacewalk — one of the most extraordinary experiences any human can have. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station suit up in what’s basically their own mini spacecraft — a suit built to protect them from the silence and danger of outer space. Once the hatch opens, they drift into the blackness, tethered only by a safety line. Below them, Earth shines quietly — oceans,

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