NASA once again will attempt the first all female ISS spacewalk.

NASA once again will attempt the first all female ISS spacewalk.
NASA will try once again to conduct an all-female spacewalk, six months after the first attempt had to be canceled because of a lack of available spacesuits aboard the International Space Station.
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are scheduled to embark on their spacewalk together on Oct. 21, the space agency announced Friday.
Originally, Koch was scheduled in March to conduct a spacewalk with astronaut Anne McClain – in what would have been the first all-female spacewalk. But McClain and Koch both required medium-size suits, and there was only one available that would be ready in time.
That shouldn’t be a problem anymore. NASA has sent up another medium-size spacesuit, according to NASA's news conference.
Koch, who has been at the space station since March, and Meir will conduct the fourth of five planned spacewalks to upgrade the power systems on the the space station by installing new lithium-ion batteries.
NASA’s deputy chief astronaut Megan McArthur told reporters the all-female spacewalk will be a milestone. But she noted that women are so integrated at all levels at NASA now that they don’t tend to dwell on gender.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite that is the largest structure humans have ever put into space. Revolving around the Earth at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers), it’s made up of several modules, with the first component launched into orbit in 1998. Let’s take a look at the inside and outside of the magnificent ISS.
(Pictured) ISS, seen with the Earth as the backdrop, shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost on Sept. 17, 2006, after completing six days of joint operations with the station crew.
“I’m sure that they’ll sit back and reflect on it, as we all will. We will all celebrate that,” McArthur said.
Expect more women spacewalking together on the horizon.
“It turns out that over the next couple years, we’re having a lot of medium-suit people fly,” said NASA’s space station program manager, Kirk Shireman.