Originally scheduled for March, the space walk was scrapped when ground control realized there were not enough medium-sized spacesuits for both female astronauts.
On October 21 NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will make history as the first women to complete an all-female spacewalk.
The troublesome spacesuit part was a piece called the"hard upper torso," which NASA describes as a"vest made out of fiberglass like some cars and swimming pools." The rigid garment is designed for strength, as the astronaut's Primary Life Support Subsystem—the backpack containing their air supply, water for the suit's temperature control system and a"thruster," or jetpack, for use in case they detach from the station—attaches to it.
NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station expedition 59/60, reacts as her spacesuit is tested prior to the launch onboard the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14, 2019. On October 21 Koch will participate in the first all-female spacewalk.
On September 30, Meir and Koch appeared together in a livestreamed interview from the space station. With their feet tethered to the spacecraft's floor and ponytails floating behind them, the pair answered questions from fans on Twitter about their research and life in space."Well, I think the advice that I give most young people is really to identify what it is you're passionate about. You know, that sounds kind of trite—we say it all the time—but it really is true.
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