The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created

The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created
The Most Complex Flying Machine Ever Created

The most complex flying machine ever created

Underappreciated Space Shuttle photos

Endeavour being serviced in the OPF

Columbia, STS-62. The OMS pods can be seen glowing due to interactions with atomic oxygen in an unusually low perigee of 195km. The hexagonal outline of the Extended Duration Orbiter Pallet is also visible.

Atlantis, STS-98. Approaching the ISS.

Endeavour, STS-54. Reflections in the window.

Challenger, rolling out before STS-6.

Mission Specialist Kathryn Thornton looking out the window while aboard Endeavour, STS-49.

Discovery, stacked ahead of STS-41.

Atlantis, STS-44. Bumped camera.

Discovery ahead of STS-128.

Challenger, STS-41B. Launching for the heavens (zoom in).

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The first all-woman spacewalk

Today the first ever spacewalk consisting of entirely women occured!

Here are the two women who were a part of this EVA.

Christina Koch

The First All-woman Spacewalk

Age 40

Two Bachelor of Science degrees, Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering

Jessica Meir

The First All-woman Spacewalk

Age 42

PhD in Marine Biology, Master of Space Studies

It is standard procedure for spacewalks to consist of more than one person. That way if something bad happens to one astronaut, the other can be there to help immediately.

Previous spacewalks were either a single male in the early days, multiple males, or a mix of men and women. Today the first ever all-woman spacewalk took place with two women going outside the International Space Station.

NASA has stated "The all-woman spacewalk wasn't something we purposefully planned, though. It was bound to happen eventually because of the increasing number of female astronauts. Koch's and Meir's 2013 class of astronaut candidates was 50 percent women.

"Spacewalk assignments are always made on the basis of which astronauts are best prepared to accomplish the tasks at hand under the conditions at the time. Spacewalks are not easy; astronauts typically describe them as the most physically challenging thing they do."

The mission lasted about 6 hours and was to replace a battery on the exterior of the station that failed to activate after prior testing (most spacewalks have objectives this boring).

Tracy Caldwell Dyson, another female NASA astronaut, remarked "Hopefully this will now be considered normal"

This is a good day for women I think :>

Holding out for the first all non-binary spacewalk


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