Screenshot of GoPro footage from a spacewalk. (Credit: NASA)

Unless youre an astronaut on board the International Space Station or in the the Chinese space program, your opportunities to go on a spacewalk are pretty much non-existent. But if you want to know what its like, you can now experience the next best thing. Earlier today, NASA released GoPro footage of two real spacewalks, taken by astronauts Terry Virts and Bruce McCandless.

The first video comes from EVA 30, which happened on February 25 of this year. During that spacewalk, the astronauts serviced the space stations robotic arm. They also made preparations to the exterior of the station for future commercial space missions to the station. This was the second in a series of spacewalks for those preparations.

The second video comes from EVA 31, marking the final spacewalk in NASAs series to prepare the station for commercial spaceflight. That spacewalk took place on March 1 and involved installing new communications systems for commercial spacecraft.

You can watch both spacewalks in the video player below, or you can download it here.

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NASA Releases GoPro Footage From Spacewalks