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march 29 2019 was meant to be a
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momentous occasion for nasa astronauts
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christina cook and anne mclean were set
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to do the first all-female spacewalk
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outside the international space station
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unfortunately that spacewalk was
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cancelled the reason a wardrobe
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malfunctioned they had the wrong top for
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anne mclean a seemingly simple oversight
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but it's an oversight that was created
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by nasa's male dominating history
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highlighting an issue that'll affect
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space flight into the future the
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differences between men and women living
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in space has been studied for decades in
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the beginning nasa following the
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military protocol at the time actually
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excluded women from training fast
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forward a few decades and you've got a
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big problem spacesuits are not all one
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size fits all when it comes to space
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walks
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size does matter but like fashion on
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earth it became more practical to
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develop them in a more general size
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especially since they cost millions of
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dollars to create this led to nasa
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cutting sizes to cut costs usually the
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smaller sizes and a lot of women need
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the smaller sizes
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this was fine for a while but the start
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of the international space station
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brought along a requirement for space
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walks for occasional repairs so what's a
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female astronaut to do as for anne
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mclean she may have missed her chance at
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the first all-female spacewalk but this
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is not her first face rodeo nor will it
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be her last so is nasa's cancelling of
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the first all-female spacewalk due to
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sexism or is the administration just
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being super cheap tell us what you think
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in the comments i'm ck kimball with the
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tundra enthusiast network and thanks for
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watching
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March 29th, 2019 was meant to be a momentous occasion for the federal space agency. Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain were to embark on the first all-female spacewalk. Unfortunately, that March all-female spacewalk was canceled. Why? A wardrobe miscalculation. Specifically, it was the wrong size suit top for Anne McClain.
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