'That was my recommendation.' Astronaut Anne McClain tells ABC News about the decision behind NASA's announcement canceling first-ever all-female spacewalk because of a lack of medium-size spacesuits on the International Space Station.
Now, the female astronaut who was supposed to be half of that“That was my recommendation,” Anne McClain, a U.S. astronaut who has been on the International Space Station since December, said Monday in a live interview from space on “Strahan & Sara.”
McClain explained that when she and fellow astronaut Nick Hague went on a spacewalk on March 22, the medium-size spacesuit she was wearing “fit perfectly.”, who arrived at the space station in March and also needed a medium-size “hard upper torso,” or the shirt of the spacesuit, according to NASA.
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