So Here ’s What NASA Has to Say About the Reaction to Cancelling the All-Female Spacewalk
NASA has cancelled its plans for an all-female spacewalk due to a lack of spacesuits that fit women astronauts. While Friday’s much-anticipated spacewalk will still take place, one of the two women scheduled for the journey, Anne C. McClain, will have to stay back. A man will accompany astronaut Christina H. Koch in her place.
Both McClain and Koch required medium spacesuit torso sections, and there is currently only one that is properly configured at the International Space Station, NASA said in a statement on Monday.
Hillary Clinton was one of many people who had been looking forward to the historic mission and took to Twitter to voice disappointment at NASA’s announcement, writing “make another suit.”
Make another suit. https://t.co/mu9w13xsi0
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 26, 2019
The March for Science posted that the decision was “incredible disappointing.”
This is incredibly disappointing @NASA 🤦 https://t.co/g6kPwRdTSe
— March for Science #ClimateStrike (@ScienceMarchDC) March 26, 2019
NASA didn't have enough spacesuits to fit an all women crew and they only needed 2. In the past spacewalks have been all men or man/woman. Women have been 11% of 500 astronauts in space. We have to stop assuming men are the default in scientific careers. https://t.co/53KeL3EFf5
— Amy Diehl, PhD (@amydiehl) March 26, 2019
This is… extremely embarrassing for NASA???? https://t.co/LUs4vnSq...
Source: TIME: Science - Category: Science Authors: Rachel E. Greenspan Tags: Uncategorized onetime space viral Source Type: news