First all-female spacewalk

 

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News Flash

NASA announced the first all-female spacewalk is scheduled for October 21.

• The all-female spacewalk was canceled because two properly fitted spacesuits were not readily available.
• The two astronauts, Christina Koch and Anne McClain, who were scheduled to conduct the spacewalk in March, both needed a medium-size torso component, but only one was available.
• The spacewalk did take place, but it wasn’t all-female.

 

Highlights

• Ms. Koch and Jessica Meir set out this month on the first women-only venture outside of the International Space Station.
• They are set to install lithium-ion batteries to better serve the station’s power supply.

 

International Space Station

• The International Space Station is a space station (artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit.
• The ISS programme is a joint project between five participating space agencies:

1. NASA (United States)
2. Roscosmos (Russia)
3. JAXA (Japan)
4. ESA (Europe)
5. CSA (Canada)

• The ownership and use of the space station are established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.
• The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields.

 

Source: New York Times

 

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