On July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. Now, almost 35 years later, history will once again be made as the first all-female spacewalk is scheduled to take place March 29. A total of 213 spacewalks have taken place since 1998, all of which have been either teams of exclusively men or teams involving both men and women. To say an all-female spacewalking excursion is long overdue would be a gross understatement. Just to clarify, NASA defines a spacewalk as any time spent outside a vehicle while in space, including fixing equipment and conducting experiments. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will be the ones making the honorable walk into space.
NASA has scheduled the first-ever all-women spacewalk
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