25. If you are outside and your tether breaks and you get disconnected from the spacecraft, what should you do? (A K2S Question)

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The Shuttle is capable of maneuvering towards an EVA crewmember if he or she should become disconnected. For a station-docked EVA, this is not the case so the astronauts wear propulsive backpacks, called simplified aid for EVA rescue (SAFER), as a backup to their safety tethers.

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Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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