NASA holds its first all-female spacewalk today, conducted by astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch. AllWomanSpacewalk
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One Twitter user replied, “If we can land people on the moon, surely we can find a solution to this quandary,” while Hillary Clinton tweeted, “Make another suit.”NASA’s Stephanie Schierholz explained to me that the spacesuits onboard the International Space Station “take into account more than 80 different body measurements.
But it certainly brings to the forefront not only the issue of gender inequality in the space program but its technological stagnation. The suits on the ISS were designed 40 years ago, far outlasting their 15-year shelf life. Rather than designing new suits to fit a new generation of astronauts, new astronauts are selected by whether they can fit in the 40-year-old suits.
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