NASA’s First All-Female<br />Spacewalk Is Back on Track NASA recently announced that<br />their first all-female spacewalk<br />has been scheduled for Oct. 21. The spacewalk was initially supposed<br />to take place in March but was postponed<br />due to issues with spacesuit sizing. It will now be performed by astronauts<br />Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who will<br />swap out the station’s solar panel batteries. Christina Koch, via NASA TV Meir also expressed her excitement for<br />the spacewalk, saying it speaks to “all of<br />the women” who came before them. Jessica Meir, via NASA TV As of 2016, only 11 percent of the 540<br />people sent to space have been women.
