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Jessica Meir

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Gender Female
Age 46
Date of birth July 1,1977
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Caribou
Maine
United States
Space agency NASA
Job Astronaut
Researcher
Academic
Space missionsExpedition 61, Soyuz MS-15, Expedition 62
Expedition 61
Soyuz MS-15
Expedition 62
Thesi oxygen
Other academ advisorBill Milsom
Education International Space University
Brown University
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
First space flightExpedition 61
Space time204d 15h 19m
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID457391
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Jessica Ulrika Meir is an American NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia.

Nasa astronauts, Christina Koch, and Jessica Meir in all-women space walk

Feb 16,2020 7:16 am

Nasa astronauts, Christina Koch , and Jessica Meir made history by completing The First all-female space walk.

she spent seven hours outside The International space station (ISS) replacement of a defective power control unit.

Ms-chef, you have already had the operations conducted four outboard, but it was The First mission for Dr. Meir, the.

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated them in a video call. "You are very brave, brilliant women," he said to them, how they performed the space walk.

Ms Koch, an electrical engineer, and Dr. Meir, who has a doctorate in marine biology in Nasa spacesuits at 11:38 GMT (07:38 CEST) on Friday. They made their way to a place called the Port 6 truss to replace the structure of The Battery charge discharge unit (BCDU).

they returned to the airlock with the failed part, which will then be loaded on the next SpaceX Dragon resupply ship for inspection on earth.

Back on earth, the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris , tweeted that the space walk was "More Than historical".

Nasa had announced in March that MS cook would take part in The First all-female "extra-vehicular activity" (EVA) with colleague, Anne Mcclain . However, the space walk was cancelled, because a medium color was available, in the near future for McClain.

The Port 6 truss structure is at one end of the ISS

The First woman to space walk was the Russian Svetlana Savitskaya , who went outside of the USSR Salyut 7 space station for Three Hours , 35 minutes, at 25. July 1984.

The First Person in the history of the space walk was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov , who died at the beginning of the month, at the age of 85 years.

On Tuesday, Nasa unveiled a prototype for a new space suit could be worn by the next astronauts on The Moon . He said the New Moon -suit, known officially as the exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) designed to give the wearer a custom fit, whatever your shape or Size .



international space station, nasa, women in science, women

Source of news: bbc.com

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