The two astronauts were also the duo who performed the first-ever all-female spacewalk in October, when they went for a spacewalk to upgrade batteries for the ISS power system. Koch, who was launched into space on 15 March, also broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman.
The first woman to conduct a spacewalk was Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1984.
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