2 Women NASA Astronauts Will Create History By Taking Part In First Ever All-Female Spacewalk
For the first time in space history NASA will be deploying two women astronauts to conduct a spacewalk that is scheduled for October 18th 2019 According to reportsAstronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir who are also on the International Space Station ISS will step outside the station to replace a failed power controller. The faulty power regulator has been in operation since 2000 and failed to activate after new lithium-ion batteries were inst...Read More
For the first time in space history, NASA will be deploying two women astronauts to conduct a spacewalk that is scheduled for October, 18th 2019.
According to reports, Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who are also on the International Space Station (ISS) will step outside the station to replace a failed power controller.
The International Space Station's Twitter account tweeted Tuesday evening that the spacewalk will take place "no earlier than Friday," updating NASA's earlier announcement that it would happen either Thursday or Friday morning.
UPDATE: First all-female spacewalk with @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica now no earlier than Friday, October 18 to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit. pic.twitter.com/6Zzlp5UWKe
¡ª Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 15, 2019
The faulty power regulator has been in operation since 2000 and failed to activate after new lithium-ion batteries were installed on the space station last week reports NPR.
According to NASA's statement, the walk was originally scheduled to take place more than six months ago, involving Koch and the Nasa astronaut Anne McClain,
But things came in the way when Nasa did not have enough of the correctly sized suits available and ready to use on the station.
.@NASA targets all-female spacewalk for no earlier than Friday to replace a failed power controller. The Exp 61 crew adjusts its schedule to accommodate the new spacewalk plans. Read more... https://t.co/NacxbVx9U7 pic.twitter.com/0CiTn45dB0
¡ª Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 16, 2019
NASA also sent out s statement informing that the failure of the power controller has not impacted the operations of the space station, the crew safety or the experiments being conducted.
Six people are serving on the space station¡¯s current mission: Koch, Meir, fellow Nasa astronaut Andrew Morgan; Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka; and the European Space Agency¡¯s Luca Parmitano.
ASA will air live coverage on its website and on NASA television starting at 6:30 a.m. ET.
