Koch and Meir completed the first all-woman spacewalk
On 18 October 2019, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first spacewalk conducted entirely by women.
Koch and Meir spent seven hours and 17 minutes outside the International Space Station. Their main task was replacing a failed battery charge-discharge unit, which regulates power collected by the station's solar arrays.
Mission control activated the replacement and confirmed that it worked. The astronauts also completed preparation work for an external European Space Agency payload platform.
Sources
- NASA: Astronauts wrap up historic all-woman spacewalk
- NASA International Space Station spacewalk record
The earlier calendar listing linked to Wikipedia. This article was written from the NASA sources above.