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World's First Female Spacewalking Team Makes History

Associated Press

   CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. - The world's first female spacewalking team made
   history high above Earth on Friday, floating out of the International
   Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network.
   As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir emerged one by one,
   it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that a woman
   floated out without a male crewmate.

     LIVE NOW: Tune in to watch the first [1]#AllWomanSpacewalk in human
     history! ð©ð»'ð
     Starting at approximately 7:50am ET, [2]@Astro_Christina &
     [3]@Astro_Jessica venture into the vacuum of space to replace a
     failed power controller. Watch: [4]https://t.co/2SIb9YXlRh
     -- NASA (@NASA) [5]October 18, 2019

   America's first female spacewalker from 35 years ago, Kathy Sullivan,
   was delighted. She said It's good to finally have enough women in the
   astronaut corps and trained for spacewalking for this to happen.

   NASA leaders - along with women and others around the world - cheered
   Koch and Meir on. At the same time, many noted that this will hopefully
   become routine in the future.
   "We've got qualified women running the control, running space centers,
   commanding the station, commanding spaceships and doing spacewalks,"
   Sullivan told The Associated Press earlier this week. "And golly, gee
   whiz, every now and then there's more than one woman in the same
   place."
   Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a three-time spacewalker who watched from Mission
   Control, added: "Hopefully, this will now be considered normal."

References

   1. https://twitter.com/hashtag/AllWomanSpacewalk?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   2. https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   3. https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
   4. https://t.co/2SIb9YXlRh
   5. https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1185141081702391809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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