Watch the first all-female spacewalking team fix faulty power unit on space station

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Watch the first all-female spacewalking team fix faulty power unit on space stationFriday's first all-female spacewalk is coming later than expected, and also earlier than expected. It's later, because the original plan for the first scheduled pairing of two spacewalking women had to be called off in March when NASA decided they couldn't get two medium-size spacesuit torsos ready on schedule. Instead, the spacewalk lineup was shuffled to have the women working alongside male crewmates. From a different perspective, the team-up of spacewalkers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir is coming nearly a week earlier than planned, due to an urgent problem on the International Space Station. The space station's crew is in… Read More


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