It took only 54 years, but a spacewalk has occurred in which women astronauts worked outside their spacecraft without a male colleague. The New York Times records the first all-female walk.

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Women had walked in space before. Jessica Meir and Christina Koch were the 14th and 15th and they spent more than seven hours outside the International Space Station.

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