NASA will carry out the first all-female spacewalk this week, after a spacesuit debacle earlier this year resulted in accusations of sexism.
Traditionally a male-dominated agency, NASA announced that Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station either Thursday or Friday this week to replace a power controller unit that failed over the weekend.
The first mission was supposed to take place in March, but had to be canceled because the space agency only had one medium sized suit, which was denounced as evidence of implicit sexism.