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October 18, 2019

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Seeing Jessica Meir make, not her
first steps, but her first float out of

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the out of the hatch there.

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NASA astronauts Jessica Meir\hand\hChristina Koch\hperformed the first all-woman spacewalk.

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Hello United States

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During the spacewalk, Koch and Meir received a congratulatory
call from the White House.

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Congratulations Christina and Jessica on
this historic event. What you do is is

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really something very special, so first
the Moon and then we go to Mars.

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For us it’s just coming out here and doing our job today. We were the crew that was tasked with this

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assignment. At the same time we recognize that it is a historic achievement and we

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do, of course, want to give credit to all those that came before us.  There has been a

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long line of female scientists, explorers, engineers and astronauts and we have

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followed in their footsteps to get us where we are today.

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NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and members of congress gathered to watch
the spacewalk at NASA headquarters.

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And It just so happens that we have the right people doing the right job at the

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right time. And in fact, this is historic because those two right people are women.

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It’s been 100 years that we’ve had the right to vote this year. So this year,

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while we celebrate that, we’re also check another box- women doing spacewalk and

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the next one, the big one, is for us to walk on the moon.

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Koch & Meir replaced a faulty battery charge/discharge unit that failed to
activate after a previous spacewalk.

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This was the fourth spacewalk for Christina Koch

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and the first for Jessica Meir.

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This is a milestone.
It symbolizes exploration by all that dare