Astronauts Christina Koch (left) and Jessica Meir are scheduled to spacewalk together on Oct. 17 or Oct. 18, 2019.
We won't have to wait quite as long as we'd thought for the first all-female spacewalk, if all goes according to plan.
"@Space_Station update: our first all-female spacewalk with @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica will be Thursday or Friday to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit," NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said via Twitter .
@Space_Station update: our first all-female spacewalk with @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica will be Thursday or Friday to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit.
Just 15 women have ever conducted a spacewalk , and all of them did so with a male companion.
But that spacewalk was scuttled because properly fitted spacesuits could not be readied in time for both astronauts.
"Third spacewalk in a busy season of spacewalks this week. »