Labels:text | screenshot | wheel OCR: WALKING IN SPACE LIVING IN SPACE ASTRONAUTS LEAVE THEIR spacecraft to do repairs on the craft itself, operate experiments, and fix TAKING A TURN satellites. Space suits are essential, and astronauts During a space walk, an are attached by a cable to prevent them from astronaut remains tethered floating off into space. All tools must be secured to the spacecraft. An Apollo 17 astronaut is shown here. or they would drift off to become space debris orbiting the Earth. Space Shuttle astronauts use the end of the remote manipulator arm as a platform to steady themselves as they work. Because they seem to be weightless, any movement an astronaut makes will push them in the opposite direction and out into space; therefore they are harnessed to their spacecraft. SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVIN ...
