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US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk (reuters.com) 42

Posted by msmash from the marching-forward dept.
U.S. astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history on Friday when they stepped outside the International Space Station (ISS) on the first all-female spacewalk. From a report: The much-anticipated milestone for NASA was achieved during a relatively routine mission to swap faulty batteries on the station’s exterior. Koch and Meir, clad in white spacesuits and tethered by cords to the station some 254 miles (408 km) above Earth, stepped into outer space at 7:38 a.m. Eastern time (1138 GMT) to replace a faulty power unit designed to help condition energy stored from the station’s solar panels, NASA announced online as it showed live video of the action. Today, President Trump took a few moments out of his day to speak with Koch and Meir. From a report: While speaking with the pair, Trump mistakenly suggested this was the first female spacewalk ever — a point that the astronauts corrected him on. “This is the first time for a woman outside of the space station,” Trump said. He later added: “You are amazing people; they’re conducting the first ever female spacewalk to replace an exterior part of the space station. They’re doing some work, and they’re doing it in a very high altitude — an altitude that very few people will ever see.” In her response, Meir made it clear that they were building on the work of many previous women who had spacewalked before them. “We don’t want to take too much credit because there have been many other female spacewalkers before,” Meir said. “This is the first time that there’s been two women outside at the same time.” In the history of spaceflight, only 15 women have ever spacewalked, including Meir and Koch.

US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk

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  • Has this guy ever not made a gaffe?

  • I think it’s great that we celebrate achievement, but why do we have to segregate everyone. I feel like the more “inclusive” we try to be, the more we do this. When will the first blonde haired Mormon transgender blasian with downs syndrome make their first spacewalk? Until then, we are just celebrating eliteism.

    • I think it’s great that we celebrate achievement, but why do we have to segregate everyone. I feel like the more “inclusive” we try to be, the more we do this. When will the first blonde haired Mormon transgender blasian with downs syndrome make their first spacewalk? Until then, we are just celebrating eliteism.

      Because the “inclusive crowd is the most racist, sexist and focused upon genitalia and who wants to have sex with who crowd that has ever existed.

      One of my guiding principles is that people of deep ideology are pathological liars. It isn’t always the case, but oh, so often

    • What if they both get their period at the same time?

      Easy….

      The guys in the space station just lock the door for a week.

  • all-little people, spacewalk, all-legless-people spacewalk, all-trans spacewalk, all-non-human spacewalk, all-robot spacewalk, all-$special spacewalk, all-people-who-presume-everyone-finding-this-silly-is-a-sexist-to-bully-people spacewalk.

    Why exactly do some morons believe, women must measure themselves with the yardsticks of things men enjoy or prioritize? To me, that is *really* sexist, as it inherently implies that those things women traditionally enjoy or prioritze would be inferior. Like a man doing s

    • While these spacewalks are for practical purposes. NASA is highly visible agency, where a lot of funding is based on PR.

      This shouldn’t normally be news, however it being the first time, it was. Normally things are big deal the first time it happens then it become old news and matter of fact.

      The real news is why after 50 years of space travel. This is happening now.

    • I think they would love a “real” sandwich in space, but sliced bread’s density is too low—so they eat a lot of pita bread “sandwiches”.

  • by sdinfoserv ( 1793266 ) writes: on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:44PM (#59323020)

    The more people focus on differences, the more differences become important. When was the last time that a 2 person spacewalk made front page news across everyone media outlet.. The 60s’? The 70’s?
    If all things were truly equal, this would/should be a non-issue. Get over yourselves and just do the job- then it’s equal.

    • It IS a non issue, this is NASA doing some PR for women to try to offset the somewhat recent news story about a woman committing the first crime in space.

    • If all things were truly equal, this would/should be a non-issue. Get over yourselves and just do the job- then it’s equal.

      If I had any karma points, I’d load you up .It’s fascinating that the people who are incessantly singing the praises of “we need moar gender/cultural/etc. equality” upon society are actually widening the divide between groups and seem to be oblivious of the fact. The irony runs thick.

    • That’s the point, all things are not equal. For some reason it’s 2019 and this is the first time it’s happened.

    • They are women, not geriatrics. I live in a place where old people flock in the winter, trust me I know all about that shit.

  • Of the hundreds of ISS space walks performed by people trained to accomplish their tasks—this is one of them.

    There’s news, fake news, and now…no news.

    Let me know when they train a dog to do a spacewalk.

    • let me know when someone trains a dog to moonwalk. I’d love to see that shit. Any YT links?

  • Really sad. 50 years after the moon sad.

  • by Anonymous Coward writes:

    Getting to be an astronaut is a big deal. I have a couple of friends who made it pretty far through the process, but not quite. One was DQ’d at the very last cut only because she had a condition that NASA flight surgeons had never encountered before (calcium crystals in the optic nerve …. THAT is how thorough the physical examinations are) and they were uncertain if it would be problematic in microgravity.

    Getting to be an astronaut is a big deal. You have to be incredible competent, not just physically

  • I read about this a couple days ago, then seen a follow up article today on Facebook. So many people think this is the first time women have performed space walks. Saying bull shit about them being qualified. Women have been making space walks for years. This is just the first time it has been only women. People are like, it is all about promoting women and nothing to do with qualifications. Crawl back in your caves assholes. Nobody gets to go to space unless they are qualified. Fucking idiots.

    • People are like, it is all about promoting women and nothing to do with qualifications. Crawl back in your caves assholes. Nobody gets to go to space unless they are qualified. Fucking idiots.

      Not only that but what the ever living fuck, why not promote women? They’ve been repressed long enough to where it might be just slightly warranted by now.

  • by Solandri ( 704621 ) writes: on Friday October 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#59323094)

    True diversity and equality can only be achieved when we no longer care about the gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, etc. of the people achieving something. And we see them not as a representative of some sub-class or grouping, but as just people accomplishing something remarkable. In other words, the people making a big deal about this are the last bastion of discrimination – they value an identical achievement more if certain categories of people do it rather than others. Which is the very definition of prejudice and discrimination.

    Sally Ride [wikipedia.org] was a great example. She was gay [browardpalmbeach.com]. But she rightfully understood that dividing people into groups and trying to equalize the groups isn’t how you end discrimination. You end it by making it so people no longer care about the groupings in the first place, which is why she never made a big deal about it. Celebrate the people because of their achievement, not because they represent a subsection of the population. Stop trying to divide the world into us vs them,

    • The first all-female spacewalk is considered news. Now, how is it that this is not at least as demeaning as keeping women out of space? Either one implies they are somehow less than men.

      Besides that, the entire discussion about equality misses the point anyway. People should have equal civil rights under the law. Period. The law should protect the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all individuals equally.

      That has somehow gotten conflated with all meanings of the word “equality” when

    • So if I’m reading that right, you think that marginalized groups should keep quiet and blend in to avoid us vs. them?

    • True diversity and equality can only be achieved when we no longer care about the gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, etc.

      Yes, but that doesn’t mean the solution is to stop caring. The solution is to get to the stage where there is no reason to care.

      In this case it’s never happened before, so it’s noteworthy. Now it has happened we can care a little bit less the 2nd and 3rd times, and eventually not at all.

      You can’t just say “the world is equal now” and it magically is, you have to actually make it so.

  • Jessica Meir is half-Swedish, with both US and Swedish citizenship.*
    That makes her the second Swedish astronaut, after Christer Fuglesang. So us Swedes are happy about that…

    Her mother is Swedish from the small town Västerås. (Pronounced “Westeros”. G.R.R. Martin didn’t know a real place with that name existed before writing Game of Thrones, but he does now)
    Her father is of Iraqi Jewish descent, from Israel. Her parents met in USA where she has lived most of her life.

    (* Wikipedia also mentions I

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