Astronaut Anne McClain

A astronaut who missed the first all-female spacewalk Due to the size of the spacesuit Six years later, there was a chance.

NASA's Anne McClain appeared from the International Space Station along with Nichole Ayers. Both officers and pilots were launched into orbital labs in March Two stuck astronauts who replace NASAnow back home.

A few minutes before surfaced, McClain noticed a rope on the index finger of his right glove. Mission control briefly delayed the start of the space operation to ensure her gloves were safe.

During the spacewalk, the couple will prepare the space station for another new set of solar panels and move the antennas on a 260-mile-high complex.

Space Road — In this image provided by NASA, astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers work outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk Thursday, May 1, 2025. NASA TV/AP

The space station must be lifted into a slightly higher orbit Wednesday night to avoid Space rubbish: Part of a 20-year-old Chinese Rockets.

The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965 by Russian astronaut Alexey Leonov. About 20 years later, astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during a solo outing in 1984.

NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first female spacewalker in the United States later that year. Until NASA conducted its first all-female spacewalk in 2019, and until 2019, more than one astronaut’s space road was conducted with an astronaut or a hybrid gender team.

McClain, an Army Colonel and helicopter pilot, will be taking part in the 2019 spacewalk, but there aren't enough midsize suits for the midsize suit after another outing. Space Walk Delayed Later, by Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.

McClain and Ayers’ spacewalk mark the fifth all-female outing in 60 years. This is McClain's third spacewalk and Ayers' first.

In NASA's astronauts, men still outweigh women. Of NASA's 47 active astronauts, there are 20 women. Of the seven astronauts currently living in the space station, McClain and Ayers are the only women, professional and former fighter pilots of the Air Force.

Koch Soon he will be the first woman to fly to the moon. She and three male astronauts will fly around the moon without descent next year NASA's Artemis ProgramApollo's successor.