NASA cancels historic all-female spacewalk over lack of spacesuits in proper size
U.S. astronaut Christina Koch was one of two women who were meant to take part in the first all-female spacewalk on Friday. She will now be partnering with male astronaut, Nick Hague, for the mission.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were supposed to take part in the first all-female spacewalk on March 29. The space agency, however, that “due in part to spacesuit availability on the station,” the mission assignments had been changed.
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