The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during a solo outing in 1984.

Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers achieved most of their planned tasks on today's (May 1) 5-hour, 44-minute extravehicular activity.

Luckily, the damage was not deemed a risk to the spacewalk. The post NASA astronaut’s ‘slice’ on glove sparks concern before spacewalk appeared first on Talker.