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Maine Astronaut Makes History As Part Of All-Female Spacewalking Team

Maine Astronaut Makes History As Part Of All-Female Spacewalking Team

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The world’s first female spacewalking team is making history high above Earth.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, a Caribou native, worked outside the International Space Station on Friday, the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that a woman floated out with a male crew mate.

They replaced a broken part of the station’s power grid.

America’s first female spacewalker, Kathy Sullivan, says it’s good to finally have enough women in the astronaut corps for this to happen.

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