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You must have seen the picture of the solitary orange zinnia that astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted last week. Such activities like growing plants in space can help astronauts reduce stress, suggests NASA's Behavioural Health and Performance team.
Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA send Thanksgiving greetings back to Earth.
NASA also recently aired their spacewalk on its live TV.
Growing tomato plants on the space station is planned for 2017.
Friday's spacewalk is the 190th in support of the International Space Station, which just marked 15 continuous years of human habitation.
Kelly and Flight Engineer Lindgren will spend six hours outside the International Space Station Friday.
Kelly and Lindgren will carry out a second spacewalk outsite the ISS again on November 6.
Kelly and Lindgren returned to the space station's airlock where repressurization began about 3:19 p.m ET, marking the official end of the spacewalk.
Spaceflight veteran Scott Kelly, who is in the midst of a year-long stint at the ISS, began the first spacewalk of his career at 8:03 AM (1733 IST), according to a live broadcast on NASA television.
A spacewalk is also called an EVA. EVA stands for extravehicular activity.
Two US astronauts will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday.
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