NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are two of the women behind the world’s first all-female spacewalk crew. The crew went into space to fix a broken battery charger on the ISS’s power network recently.
This expedition took place 35 years after Soviet astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to participate in a spacewalk on July 25th, 1984. It is also 35 years after Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk out into space several months after Savitskaya on October 11th. According to NASA representatives, there is invested hope that all-female missions will quickly become commonplace.
“We’ve got qualified women running the control, running space centers, commanding the station, commanding spaceships and doing spacewalks,” Sullivan told The Associated Press. “And golly, gee whiz, every now and then there’s more than one woman in the same place.”
Source:GNN
