{"id":157759,"date":"2019-10-05T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157759"},"modified":"2019-10-05T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:06:18","slug":"first-all-female-spacewalk-back-on-six-months-after-embarrassing-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157759","title":{"rendered":"First all-female spacewalk back on six months after embarrassing cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\">The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a flap over spacesuits led to an embarrassing cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>The International Space Station&#8217;s two women will pair up for the walk later this month, NASA announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Koch and the newly-arrived Jessica Meir will venture out on 21 October to plug in new batteries.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the fourth of five spacewalks involving battery work.<\/p>\n<p>The first is this Sunday, when Ms Koch will go out with a male colleague.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia image\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/10\/768x432\/skynews-jessica-meir_4795533.jpg?20191004220842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/10\/384x216\/skynews-jessica-meir_4795533.jpg?20191004220842 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/10\/768x432\/skynews-jessica-meir_4795533.jpg?20191004220842 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/10\/1600x900\/skynews-jessica-meir_4795533.jpg?20191004220842 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/10\/2048x1152\/skynews-jessica-meir_4795533.jpg?20191004220842 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"Jessica Meir is one of the two astronauts will complete the all-female spacewalk on 21 October\"><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-article-image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"><span class=\"sdc-article-image__caption-text\">The all-female spacewalk will take place on 21 October<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ms Koch was supposed to go spacewalking with Anne McClain on 29 March, but <strong>NASA scrapped the plan<\/strong> because there wasn&#8217;t time to get a second medium-sized spacesuit ready.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s deputy chief astronaut Megan McArthur says the first-female spacewalk will be a milestone worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>The space station uses solar panels to generate power, but the batteries are used when it is in the dark and not getting power from the sun.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a flap over spacesuits led to an embarrassing cancellation. The International Space Station&#8217;s two women will pair up for the walk later this month, NASA announced on Friday. Christina Koch and the newly-arrived Jessica Meir will venture out on 21 October to plug in new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}