After it was rescheduled over suit availability, astronauts Koch and Meir will finally take the first all-female spacewalk.
) and confirmed that there will be a series of 10 planned spacewalks, calling it a “spacewalk bonanza.” The series will begin next week and will continue over the next three months, “a cadence that has not been experienced since the assembly of the space station was completed in 2011,” NASA said in a“It’s a really busy time,” Kirk Shireman, NASA’s program manager for the space station, said in a news briefing. “It’ll be exciting and fun. We’re looking forward to it.
For October, Koch and Meir have both trained in medium-sized suits for the last six years and it’s been confirmed that there are two available medium-sized suits for their spacewalk. “We do our best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes that each astronaut will need, based on the spacesuit size they wore in training on the ground, and in some cases astronauts train in multiple sizes,” Brandi Dean with NASA’s public affairs officewas scraped.
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