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WASHINGTON: American astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir became the first couple of women to take a spacewalk on Friday, a historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon. <\/p>\n
The mission was originally planned for earlier this year, but had to be aborted due to the lack of proper space suits, which led to accusations of sexism. <\/p>\n
"Christina, you can get out of the airlock," said the pair of communicators in the spacecraft Stephanie Wilson when they set out to replace a power controller at the International Space Station at 1138 GMT. <\/p>\n
\nNASA plans to send woman to the moon<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
They began their mission with standard security controls on their suits and belts, before heading to the repair site on the port side of the station, when the sunlit Earth appeared. <\/p>\n
In a call to journalists a few minutes earlier, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine emphasized the symbolic meaning of the day. <\/p>\n
"We want to make sure that space is available to all people, and this is another milestone in that evolution," he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have an 11 year old daughter; I want her to see herself having all the same opportunities that I had when I was growing up. " <\/p>\n
The first spacewalk for women only was supposed to be done in March, but it was canceled because the space agency only had a medium-sized suit, with a man-woman combination that performed the required task at a later date. <\/p>\n
NASA's inability, traditionally dominated by men, of not being adequately prepared was denounced in some sectors as evidence of implicit sexism. <\/p>\n
Koch, an electrical engineer who runs the mission, was carrying out her fourth spacewalk and was connected to the robotic arm of the station. <\/p>\n
Meir, who has a doctorate in marine biology and was doing his first spacewalk, made his way carefully using handles. The two were working to replace a defective battery charge \/ discharge unit, known as BCDU. <\/p>\n
The station depends on solar energy, but it is out of direct sunlight for much of its orbit and, therefore, needs batteries, and the BCDU regulates the amount of charge that enters them. <\/p>\n
The current task was announced on Monday and is part of a broader mission to replace the old nickel-hydrogen batteries with larger-capacity lithium-ion units. <\/p>\n
The United States sent its first female astronaut to space in 1983, when Sally Ride participated in the seventh space shuttle mission, and has now had more female astronauts than any other country. <\/p>\n
But the first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, followed by her compatriot Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982, who was also the first woman to walk the space two years later. <\/p>\n
Ken Bowersox, interim associate administrator at NASA, said he hoped that a spacewalk for women would soon be a "routine" matter that would not require celebration. <\/p>\n
When asked why it had taken so long, Meir is the 14th spacewalker of women in the US. UU., He said that the additional height of the men provided an advantage. "There have been many spacewalks where very tall men are the ones who could do the job because they could reach and do things a little more easily," he said. <\/p>\n
"But we have also brought women to the crews, because of their brains, right; they come in and bring different skills, they think about things in different ways. And by using their brains, they can overcome many of those physical challenges." <\/p>\n
NASA plans to return to the Moon in 2024 for the first time since the Apollo landing of 1969-1972. The new mission is called Artemis, in honor of Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology. <\/p>\n
The mission will see the first woman to step on the lunar surface, probably as part of a man-woman combination, while the space agency looks forward to a manned expedition to Mars in the 2030s.<\/p>\n
Published on Dawn, October 19, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n
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