First All Women Spacewalk At The ISS
NASA streamed a milestone in Human spaceflight yesterday: an all women spacewalk at the International Space Station. Although it wasn’t exactly a thrilling ride (I’m pretty sure that when it comes to working in Earth orbit, “thrilling” isn’t what you want), it was still momentous in that both astronauts doing the spacewalk were women.
Generational gap
Watching the stream on TV left me with the sense that how we and our kids view these events is very much a generational thing:
Parents who grew up with rare televised Space stuff: “Hey kids, check out these astronauts working in space, right now! Wow! And this time they’re all women, wow!”
Kids who grew up with on demand streams of constant Space stuff: “Oh, ok … 🙄” <back to their gaming device>
Parents: 😲
About the spacewalk
If you’re interested in the mission (and likely older than 20-something), take a look at the NASA blog post about the mission:
Two NASA astronauts switched their spacesuits to battery power this morning at 7:38 a.m. EDT. Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are venturing out into the vacuum of space to replace a failed power controller, also known as a battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU). The BCDU regulates the charge to the batteries that collect and distribute solar power to the orbiting lab’s systems.
Female Duo Ventures Outside Station for Historic Spacewalk – Space Station
The video stream ran to almost eight hours, but it’s definitely watching, at least in part (this is the sort of video you may just have on in the background):
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What do you think?