Maine astronaut Jessica Meir steps into history as she completes all-female spacewalk
Posted on AllSides October 18th, 2019
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Astronaut Jessica Meir made history Friday morning when she stepped out of the International Space Station for the first all-female spacewalk.
Meir and fellow astronaut Christina Koch became the first all-woman team of astronauts to work in space outside the orbiting research station. Meir, who grew up in Caribou, has dreamed about going to space since she was 5 and wrote in her senior yearbook that her future plan was to go on a spacewalk.
The spacewalk officially began at 6:38 a.m., 12 minutes ahead of schedule. By 11:30 a.m.,...