During today’s #AllWomanSpacewalk, @GirlsScouts shared well wishes for @Astro_Christina & @Astro_Jessica, both of whom are #GirlScouts alum. Tune in to watch these spacewalkers wrap up today’s excursion outside of the @Space_Station: https://t.co/2SIb9YFKsH pic.twitter.com/kjkvkYa4Qt
— NASA (@NASA) October 18, 2019
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.