NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch are not taking the first-female spacewalk because there are not enough spacesuits of the best size to fit them.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch.
NASA said the two female astronauts had prepared to continue work outside the International Space Station installing lithium-ion batteries for the space station’s solar arrays.Schierholz told The Post that McClain had trained in both large-sized and medium-sized suits but, during her first spacewalk last Friday, she realized that the medium was the better fit. Koch also wears a medium, and Schierholz said there is only one medium-sized hard upper torso that can be made ready by Friday.
“In addition, no one training environment can fully simulate performing a spacewalk in microgravity, and an individual may find that their sizing preferences change in space.” The astronaut said that the “combination of the teamwork, the exploration, being somewhere that nobody else has ever been always fascinated me.”Some more shots of the #spacewalk on Friday – was privileged to work with my friend and colleague @NASA_Astronauts @AstroHague pic.twitter.com/KueUo7HXFm
Koch said in an interview last month that there were several spacewalks planned, and she would be “very excited to execute that mission.”
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