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WHAT IS A SPACEWALK?
- An astronaut spacewalk is a dangerous extra vehicular activity which requires astronauts to exit the relative safety of their spacecraft (space station or space shuttle) to perform work on its exterior. The process adheres to strict safety procedures, requires extensive safety equipment, and is only performed when a space agency determines it is absolutely necessary.
- The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov. He was from Russia. The first spacewalk was on March 18, 1965. It was 10 minutes long.
SPACEWALK
In an astronaut spacewalk, also known as an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA), an astronaut literally walks in space, exiting the relative safety of the international space station in order to perform exterior repairs on things like a solar panel. Spacewalks are dangerous, physically demanding, and rare.
SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA
- Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya – a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
NASA LAUNCHES FIRST ALL-FEMALE SPACEWALK
- Christina Koch and Jessica Meir left the International Space Station today to begin the first all-female spacewalk ever. Their job was to fix a broken part of the International Space station’s solar power network.
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