For the first time in history, a space mission for women only
NASA is the first space mission of its kind in history on March 29.
The nature of the historical space mission, which comes 35 years after the participation of women in space missions, is to walk in space, but the task will be limited to female astronauts only, according to the Guardian.
Space scientists Christina Koch and Anne McKline will walk outside the International Space Station on March 29 on a battery replacement mission that was installed last summer, the space agency said.
The two pilots will receive "ground support" from space flight director Mary Lawrence and Christine Fashiol of the Canadian Space Agency at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, the agency said.
"I can not contain the excitement I feel," she said on Twitter.
Soviet astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to go into space on July 25, 1984, while the first astronaut in history was Soviet Valentina Trichevova, who went to space on June 13, 1963, and was the only one to travel to space alone. crew.
Although 213 astronauts carried out by astronauts on the International Space Station since 1998 for maintenance, repair and testing, NASA has not included any astronauts.
Of the more than 500 astronauts on the International Space Station, only 11 percent are female, and all spacewalks are for male or female and male astronauts.
But this task will be limited to female astronauts alone, NASA said.
Over 60 years of space travel, there have been only four flights involving two astronauts trained to walk in space.
McClane and Koch were part of NASA's "Nasa Batch" for 2013, a batch of which 50 percent were female.
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