18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... the first all female spacewalk is therefore long overdue. The spacewalk, officially known as an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), should have taken place back in March, but was controversially postponed because there were not enough...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
... astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan was the first American woman to conduct an EVA (in 1984), she didn’t get to lay hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
... astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan was the first American woman to conduct an EVA (in 1984), she didn’t get to lay hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle...
