“I think that NASA made the correct decision for these circumstances, but I am looking forward to a future where the road to these missions is more inclusive.”
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were originally expected to complete the first all-female spacewalk together Friday but the assignments were changed this week. “After consulting with McClain and Hague following the first spacewalk, mission managers decided to adjust the assignments, due in part to spacesuit availability on the station,” NASA said in a release about the change.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, participates in a session of extravehicular activity, called an EVA, as maintenance and construction continue on the International Space Station. NASA “This decision to me makes complete sense, especially because one of the scenarios that could have happened if we put the priority on ‘Let’s have an all women spacewalk, we said we were going to, maybe we really need to,’ what happens then is either they have to rush refitting a suit or one of them has to go out in a suit that doesn’t fit, neither of those are good,” Kowal explained.
Expedition 26 crew member Cady Coleman undergoes International Space Station training in NASA’s neutral buoyancy Lab, on September 21, 2010. Robert Markowitz/NASA And those suits are decades old, they were designed in the '70s to be used in space shuttle launches in the '80s, Dean told Newsweek. NASA didn’t send its first woman to space until 1983 when Sally Ride launched, meaning the suits were designed when the astronaut classes were made up of mostly men.
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