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Christina Koch breaks record for longest spaceflight by a woman

Post author By Randall
Post date December 28, 2019
Categories In astronaut, christina koch, gear, international space station, Nasa, Space, spaceflight, Tech, Video

[ad_1] This won’t be the longest spaceflight of all time. Scott Kelly set the US record by staying in space for 340 consecutive days between 2015 and 2016, while Russia’s Valeri Polyakov spent just over 437 days aboard Mir. It’s still a very long stretch, however, and it comes on the back of Koch joining […]

An ill-fitting spacesuit cancels NASA’s first all-female spacewalk

Post author By Randall
Post date March 26, 2019
Categories In anne mcclain, christina koch, gear, h.u.t., hard upper torso, iss, Nasa, nick hague, Space, spacewalk, Tech
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[ad_1] A historic spacewalk was scheduled to occur this week, with only women operating outside the ISS for the first time ever. News of the event was revealed earlier this month when a flight controller tweeted about the schedule, but as NASA noted at the time “assignments and schedules could always change.” Now that has […]