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		</div><p>Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year.</p>
<p>Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s feet to a robotic arm, state media said.</p>
<p>China is building its own space station after being excluded by the US from the International Space Station because its military runs the country’s space programme.</p>
<p>US officials see a host of strategic challenges from China’s space ambitions, in an echo of the US-Soviet rivalry that prompted the race to the moon in the 1960s.</p>
<p>The latest spacewalk was the second during a six-month mission that will oversee the completion of the space station.</p>
<p>The first of two laboratories, a 23-ton module, was added to the station in July and the other is to be sent up later this year.</p>
<p>The third member of the crew, Liu Yang, supported the other two from inside during the spacewalk. Liu and Chen conducted the first spacewalk about two weeks ago.</p>
<p>They will be joined by three more astronauts near the end of their mission in what will be the first time the station has six people on board.</p>
<p>China became the third nation to send a person into space in 2003, following the former Soviet Union and the United States.</p>
<p>It has sent rovers to the moon and Mars and brought lunar samples back to Earth.</p>
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