NASA Cancels All-Female Spacewalk

NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 59/60, looks on as her spacesuit is tested prior to the launch onboard the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

NASA announced that they have canceled the historic all-female spacewalk that was planned for Friday (March 29) because they do not have two spacesuits that will properly fit astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch. NASA says that the issue was discovered last week when McClain participated in a spacewalk with fellow astronaut Nick Hague.

As McClain was preparing for the spacewalk, she realized that a medium-sized hard upper torso fit her best, but NASA only has one available on the International Space Station and cannot get a second one ready by Friday.

NASA says that Hague will take McClain's spot on Friday's spacewalk, in which they will install lithium-ion batteries for the station’s solar arrays. McClain will go on a spacewalk with Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques on April 8th to lay cable which will "provide for more expansive wireless communications coverage outside the orbital complex, as well as for enhanced hardwired computer network capability."

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