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I have this little guy!

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This is Kathy Sullivan (and Murphy)

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35 years ago, Kathy became the 1st American woman to walk in space.

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We video chatted with Kathy to ask her about her experience.

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Hi, there.

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Our commander Bob Crippen
actually ordered us to stop for a minute

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and you pivot away from the space
shuttle and look around. And he said

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"taking the fact that you're 190 miles
above the earth, you're doing

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17,500 miles an hour, you're pilot in
command of your own spaceship- that's

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what a spacesuit is. It's a body shaped
spaceship and you're actually really

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here." And It was a forever grateful
that he did that.

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We asked about her thoughts on an all-female spacewalk.

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I'm mainly glad that there are now such
a proportion of super highly qualified

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women that have proven themselves in the
astronaut corps. These are people of

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superior talent and skills. They worked
hard to develop them. They're super

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trained. They're ready for anything that
might go wrong- as ready as any other

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human being can be. And I think it's
it's to NASA's credit that over the

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decades since 1978, there has been an
effort to infuse the talent pipeline so

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more and more qualified women and people
of color come forward and you know