History-making all-female spacewalk canceled by NASA because there were not enough spacesuits sized for women on the International Space Station.
The cancellation is due in part to “spacesuit availability,”. In other words, the agency did not have enough spacesuits sized for women on the International Space Station.
The spacewalk was supposed to be led by NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch, with the assistance of Kristen Facciol, a Canadian Space Agency flight controller, on the ground in Houston. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, left, and Anne McClain, Star City near Moscow, Russia, during their training for their upcoming mission which will include the first-ever all-female spacewalk.
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