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Headline: NASA Cancels First All Female Spacewalk

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: NASA astronaut Christina Koch (centre) assists fellow astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Anne McClain in their U.S. spacesuits shortly before they begin the first spacewalk of their careers. Hague and McClain worked outside, in the vacuum of space, for six hours and 39 minutes on March 22, 2019, to upgrade the International Space Station's power storage capacity. .... STORY COPY: NASA has cancelled the first all-female spacewalk. NASA astronaut Christina Koch had been scheduled to conduct a spacewalk with astronaut Anne McClain, in what would have been the first all-female spacewalk. However, after consulting with McClain and astronaut Nick Hague following the first spacewalk on March 22, mission managers decided to adjust the assignments, due in part to spacesuit availability on the station. McClain learned during her first spacewalk that a medium-size hard upper torso – essentially the shirt of the spacesuit – fits her best. Because only one medium-size torso can be made ready by Friday, March 29, Koch will wear it.

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