NASA cancels all-female spacewalk because it didn’t have enough spacesuits ready in the right size

Tech Crunch ^ | 03/26/2019 | Jonathan Shieber

[BenLurkin]

That sad trombone you hear is the sound of NASA’s attempt at a history-making spacewalk falling apart.

After conducting the first spacewalk this week, astronaut Anne McClain noted that the large suit she was wearing did not allow her to move effectively.

“McClain learned during her first spacewalk that a medium-size hard upper torso – essentially the shirt of the spacesuit – fits her best,” according to a statement from NASA. Because only one medium-size torso would be ready by the planned Friday spacewalk, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will use the suit.

[morphing libertarian]

looking for cleavage

[ZOOKER]

Typical female complaint.

Wanted to go, didn't have a thing to wear!

(Ducking and covering now)

[Da Coyote]

Nothing wrong with an all female space walk, but NASA might start trying to get a viable space launch vehicle going. Were it not for Musk, NASA’s only claim to fame is that they really really want to be friendly with Muslims.

And to think that once they actually got to the moon. Oops, forgot, those were those were men and women with actual STEM talent, not silly marshmallow degrees in HR.

[grobdriver]

Good luck with that.

You'll be lucky to see any skin at all.

[dead]

You can’t appear on camera in the same exact outfits anyway.

[elcid1970]

“Does this spacesuit make my butt look too big?”

[rightwingintelligentsia]

astronaut Anne McClain noted that the large suit she was wearing did not allow her to move effectively

Also, she thought it made her butt look too big.

[BenLurkin]

Bingo

[semaj]

A disaster in the making.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does this oxygen tank make me look fat?

-PJ

[hal ogen]

This is PC run amok. What's next?...quadriplegic space walk.

[mad_as_he$$]

Multiuser space suits? No, I understand that they are expensive but the bodily fluids accumulated during a four hour space walk, and multiple times, are revolting. Hard no from me.

[OKSooner]

They need to just go to Hollywood and ax around, they've got at least one spacesuit hanging around somewhere that would do just fine, even today.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/132856257731975645/

[Army Air Corps]

Sir Mix-a-lot approves.

[BenLurkin]

Did you bring jewelry?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I thought that all spacesuits were made custom fit. At least that’s the people who made them told us at a school demo.

[Red Badger]

[mbarker12474]

Or the right color, length, style...

[Innovative]

And it did not occur to them to check first, before spending a month touting the all-female space walk.