After Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first non professional astronaut to walk in space. Our Science Correspondent Phalab ghosh was back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth sure looks like a perfect world. Historic words for an historic moment. Out comes the first private Sector Astronaut to walk in space. Silhouetted on earths orbit. Hed paid billions of dollars for this experience. The capsule has no Air Logs of the entire spacecraft is in the vacuum of space once the doors open. Then the all important checks to make sure the spacesuits dont leak. They have been upgraded for the spacewalk, stronger and more flexible. The helmets have a Heads Up Display so they see how well their bodies are coping. The air is taken out of the capsule so the pressure inside matches what is outside. The hatch opens, and isaacman exits the spacecraft. There is not much to do outside apart from testing the suit, so
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dramatic scenes, and looks pretty dramatic on the way down radar picture as well. it was the showers and storms coming up from the south which really meant business. the lightning strikes numbering into the thousands, a lot of rain in places and even this morning there were more thunderstorms coming into the south east corner. there was are clearing away, though, and actually things have calmed down quite considerably now, so for this afternoon it does not look too bad out there. some sunshine for england and wales, the small chance of a shower down towards the south. a bit more cloud for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures, i9 western scotland. temperatures, 19 degrees for aberdeen, 22 in london, still feeling relatively warm in the sunshine. tonight should be a quieter night, with more cloud coming up from the south which could introduce some outbraked of rain by the end of the night. also some showery rain in western scotland and parts of northern ireland.
increasing in scotland we will find thickening cloud and some outbreaks of rain moving in as well. england and wales during saturday look like they should really be dry and some spells of sunshine as well. temperatures could be a little higher i think on saturday especially towards the south east, up especially towards the south east, up to 21 celsius or so. into the second half of the week we can keep an eye on this weather front that could bring some heavy showers into the channel but most of the wet weather coming in on those weather fronts in the north west of the uk once again. once again some patchy rain followed by some showers, start for western england and wales but the best of the sunshine, dry weather, across east anglia and the south east. temperatures will be a little higher, peaking at 20 to 23 celsius. sophie. how nice. thank you. that is all from the bbc news at six. it is goodbye from hello and welcome to sportsday awin a win tonight will keep them in the c