NASA have had a number of historical journey to space, exploring the outer space. Mostly male astronauts have been part of the majority of the epic journeys, while the number of female astronauts and their expeditions are lesser known. However, NASA went on to cross another milestone, when Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed their first-ever all-women spacewalk.
Before that, women have travelled to outer space quite a few times, and the first spacewalk was completed by Russian astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya, in 1984. She went out of USSR's Salyut 7 space station for reportedly 3 hours and 35 minutes. But the duo of Koch and Meir successfully concluded the mission of replacing a failed power control unit outside International Space Station (ISS) in 7 hours.
Among the two, Christina Koch was completing a spacewalk for the fourth time in her life, but Jessica Meir became the 15th women to walk in space, as it was her very first time that she conducted a spacewalk. Meir having a doctorate in marine biology, and Koch an electrical engineer by profession, went out of the space station in their NASA space suits at 11:38 GMT (07:38 EDT) on Friday, to replace the battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU).
Since the fallout of the first all-women extra-vehicular activity (EVA), due to an embarrassing reason concerning the size of the suit with astronaut Anne McClain. NASA announced on Tuesday to have designed a new spacesuit named Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), for their upcoming Moon Mission in 2024, which will have customized fit for all.
