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On March 18, 1965, a man first left a ship and walked through space. The 12-minute walk starring cosmonaut Alexéi Leónov, who died last Friday, inaugurated an activity that many other astronauts have repeated in the following decades to perform maintenance and repairs, usually in pairs. They have offered us some of the most iconic images of space history, that of human beings floating through the cosmos with our planet in the background.

In total, 221 spacewalks have been made at the International Space Station (ISS) but they had never been carried out exclusively by women. Until this Friday, when NASA has scheduled the first walk in which two women participate. The chosen ones are Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who are currently in the International Space Station (ISS). For Koch it will be the fourth spacewalk and for Meir, who arrived a month ago at the ISS, the first. With Meir, there are 15 women astronauts who have made a spacewalk.

Actually, this walk starring two female astronauts should have taken place on March 29 / strong>. But after announcing it, NASA was forced to replace one of the astronauts with a man because there was only one suit of the right size . The critics rained NASA after this incident.

Christina Koch and Jessica Meir at the ISSNASA

By the way, the astronaut who ran out of space, Anne McClain, who returned to Earth in summer, is being investigated for an alleged crime by having entered her ex-wife's bank accounts without permission from the Space Station.

The mission of Christina Koch and Jessica Meir during this spacewalk, which began at 13.38 (Spanish peninsular time), is to replace a damaged component of the system that supplies power to the ISS. The work is expected to last between five and six hours.

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