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Nasa astronauts to carry out first all-female spacewalk
Christina Koch and Anne McClain to make history at International Space Station on 29 March
Reuters
Wed 6 Mar 2019 22.13 EST Last modified on Thu 7 Mar 2019 13.35 EST
The first all-female spacewalk is to take place later this month, 35 years after a woman first took part in one.
The US space agency Nasa said astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain will walk outside the International Space Station on 29 March on a mission to replace batteries installed last summer.
They will receive ground support from flight director Mary Lawrence and Kristen Facciol of the Canadian Space Agency in Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.
“I cannot contain my excitement!” Facciol tweeted.
Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to carry out a spacewalk on 25 July 1984.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/07/nasa-astronauts-to-carry-out-first-all-female-spacewalk