Women Space Walk

By elisha fieldstadt two astronauts made history friday morning as the first women to participate in an all female spacewalk.
Women space walk. All female spacewalk has link to 1st us woman to walk in space. The basics nasa. Nasa astronauts jessica meir and christina koch conducted the first all female spacewalk outside of the international space station. The excitement around the event was about the spacewalkers themselves the 14th and 15th women to spacewalk since the first woman the soviet cosmonaut svetlana savitskaya did it in 1984.
The astronauts christina koch and jessica meir. Nasa reached a milestone on friday when two americans tasked with replacing a power controller ventured out of the international space station. Women have walked in space before but the walk scheduled for friday reflects a real change in the astronaut corps. Soviet cosmonaut alexey leonov carried out history s first spacewalk in 1965.
Savitskaya became the first woman to fly to space twice on the soyuz t 12 mission on july 25 1984 and the first woman to walk in space when she performed extravehicular activity eva outside the salyut 7 space station on the soyuz t 12 mission. Friday marks the first time a space walk has comprised only female astronauts. Cosmonaut svetlana savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during an outing with a male cosmonaut in 1984. Only 11 of people who have been to space are women.
Christina koch was one of the astronauts due to take part. Christina koch and jessica meir ventured outside the international. Friday s spacewalk the first to be conducted entirely by women is generating public interest we normally don t get for a spacewalk.