History is marked today as the first all women space walk started at just past 7:30 a.m. ET. Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are embarking on a 5.5 hour space walk today that will inspire girls and women alike.

NASA failed forward in the spring of 2019 as they realized they did not have enough spacesuits in a variety of sizes to fit all their astronauts and had to cancel the scheduled all women walk. Fast forward six months, and here we are. Watching these engineers replace the batteries on one of the arms of the space station.

It is exciting to see, empowering to watch, and relieving to understand that yet another glass ceiling has been cracked. We still know that young women lag their male peers in pursuing technical fields. I hope, as I listen to science classes ask questions through the live broadcast, that young girls are seeing themselves in Jessica and Christina’s spacesuits. In addition to Koch and Meir, Stephanie Walker, NASA Engineer, is working with the team from Houston.

Dreams. This is a defining moment for young women across the globe. In this five hour spacewalk, there are 330 minutes of live inspiration happening for girls everywhere to declare, “I want to do that. I want to be an astronaut.” And I hope so many do.

Women on the Space Walk