NASA said: “The first all-woman spacewalk is a milestone worth noting and celebrating as the agency looks forward to putting the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 with NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program.
“Our achievements provide inspiration to students around the world, proving that hard work can lead you to great heights, and all students should be able to see themselves in those achievements.”
Today’s spacewalk marked the fourth time Mrs Koch has donned NASA’s iconic spacesuit to leave the ISS.
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The astronauts said: “In the end, I do think it’s important, and I think it’s important because of the historical nature of what we’re doing.
“It’s wonderful to be contributing to the space program at a time when all contributions are being accepted, when everyone has a role.
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In 1968, NASA astronaut Bill Anders took a photo which had a profound impact on the way humankind saw itself.
Known as Earthrise, the photo — taken from a spacecraft in lunar orbit — showed our planet rising above the horizon of the moon.
When it was published, the image had a galvanising effect on the environmental movement, fulfilling a prophecy of English cosmologist Fred Hoyle.
Two decades earlier, Professor Hoyle had written that a photograph of the Earth from space would create "a new idea as powerful as any in history" .
The Earthrise photo made it easier for humanity to see itself as a whole, and to glimpse what was at stake if we trashed our planetary home.
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Ever since, the image has been regarded as a moral stimulant — a reminder of the fragility of human existence and of our collective destiny on "spaceship Earth".
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The women working in the commissary at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 27, 2015 barely paid attention as the moment approached when the Soyuz rocket, just visible less than a kilometer away, would lift off. But when the 20 engines at the base of the rocket lit at 12:42 AM local time, turning the deep night to a brilliant white day, they hurried over to the window to watch! Videos for NASA Spacewalk : Space Agency Boasts 1:06 Suit unsuitable: NASA nixes first all-women spacewalk REUTERS!! Less than 20 seconds later, the rocket disappeared into a low-lying cloud bank.
TIME was there for the launch — and with good reason. One of the three men aboard the rocket that night was veteran astronaut Scott Kelly, who was on his way to spending a near-complete year in space! 6:19:32 NASA & Canada Astronauts Go on Spacewalk to Work on Robotic Arm | NowThis YouTube!! Like all crew members on the International Space Station (ISS), Kelly would be conducting observations and scientific experiments! 1:09 NASA spacewalk : Space agency boasts 'milestone' as all-female astronauts work on the ISS- NASA News YouTube!! Unlike other space station crew members, Kelly also was the experiment — a test of how the human body adapts, or doesn’t, to extended periods in zero-g. The results would be compared to identical tests conducted on his twin brother Mark, who was also an astronaut, but who was staying on Earth for the duration of the mission.
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Davra was one of three Irish companies awarded a share of €1.5m in co-funding from the European Space Agency.
Irish IoT start-up Davra was recently awarded funding from the European Space Agency ( ESA ) Centre for Earth Observation.
The Dublin-based company secured 50pc co-funding for a €570,000 project to develop an integrated satellite and distributed ground sensor system to monitor missing tailings storage facilities (TSFs) in remote locations.
Founded in 2012, Davra has developed an application enablement platform (AEP) that allows system integrators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end customers to define, build and rapidly bring to market industrial-grade IoT applications.
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