The Almanac

October 18

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 2019

    The first all-woman spacewalk

    Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station together, the first spacewalk carried out entirely by women, more than fifty years after the first spacewalk of all. They spent hours swapping out a failed power part. Half the sky, it turned out, had simply been waiting its turn.

    Source: Wikipedia

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