Author: Lindsey Bever / Source: Press Herald
NASA has aborted its mission for a first-ever all-female spacewalk around the International Space Station because there are not enough spacesuits to fit the female astronauts, the agency said.
Astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch had planned to conclude Women’s History Month with a spacewalk Friday to install batteries outside the space station.
But NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz said in an email Tuesday to The Washington Post that both women now need a medium-sized hard upper torso — the shirt of the spacesuit — and there is only one medium-sized suit on the space station that is ready for use. NASA said astronauts Nick Hague and McClain completed the first spacewalk in the series earlier this month, so Hague and Koch plan to set out on the next one later this week.
Still, Schierholz said, “We believe an all-female spacewalk is inevitable.”
Both McClain and Koch were members of NASA’s 2013 astronaut class, 50 percent of which was made up…
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