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NASA spacewalkers Christina Koch
(foreground, suit with red stripe) and Jessica Meir (suit with no stripes)
replaced a failed battery charge-discharge unit with a new one during a 7-hour,
17-minute spacewalk on Oct. 18, 2019 outside the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA TV
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For Spaceupclose.com and RocketSTEM
Cape Canaveral, FL – A dynamic duo of NASA women astronauts - Christina Koch and Jessica Meir - made history Friday, Oct. 18 when they carried out and successfully completed history’s 1st all-female spacewalk soaring some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth while working and floating outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a critical job to swap out a failed power distribution unit and thereby restored full power to the orbiting research complex – all the while generating enormous global interest from the public.
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