FIRST FEMALE WALK ON THE MOON
As you may know, if you like reading a lot about astronauts, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday to replace a power controller. The walk, which lasted seven hours and 17 minutes and included a brief call with President Trump, was not purposefully planned by the agency. As NASA explained it, one was bound to happen eventually because of the increasing number of female astronauts. But news of the milestone attracted far greater interest than spacewalks normally do, and on Friday, American officials celebrated it as a historic achievement. They pointed to the agency’s ambitious goals to put the first woman and the next man on the moon, and then to forge a path to Mars. Photograph: Handout/Nasa/AFP via Getty Images Such a walk was supposed to take place in March, but it was postponed because NASA did not have two appropriately sized spacesuits available. Women were not admitted into the astronaut program ...