Current context: Two female NASA astronauts, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk on 18th October 2019.
a. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
b. Sally Ride and Judith Resnik
c. Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova
d. Svetlana Savitskaya and Valentina Tereshkova
- The first such mission was scheduled to take place in March but was cancelled.
- Jessica Meir is a marine biologist has now become the 15th Women and 228th person in the world to conduct a spacewalk.
- This was Christina Koch’s 4th spacewalk, who is an electrical engineer.
- The 1st women in space was Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut in 1963.
- The first woman spacewalker was Svetlana Savitskaya (Russia) in 1982.
- The first female astronaut into space from US was in 1983 and has now had more women astronauts than any other country.
Question:
Q.1 Which two female NASA astronauts have become the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk?a. Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
b. Sally Ride and Judith Resnik
c. Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova
d. Svetlana Savitskaya and Valentina Tereshkova
