PRESIDENT Donald Trump called NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir on Friday during their historic all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
Trump congratulated the astronauts, calling them brave.
“This is the first time for a woman outside of the space station,” Trump said. “They’re conducting the first ever female spacewalk to replace an exterior part of the space station.”
Meir quickly corrected him: “First of all, we don’t want to take too much credit because there have been many other female spacewalkers before us. This is just the first time there have been two women outside at the same time.”
The first woman to work outside of a space station was Russian astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1984.
The first all-female spacewalk was originally scheduled for March, but it was delayed over spacesuit sizing issues.
“I just want to congratulate you. What you do is incredible,” Trump said. “You’re very brave people. I don’t think I want to do it.”
