NASA Launching First All-Women Spacewalk

Women are still making history this #WomensHistoryMonth — this time in space.

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00:00These amazing feats show us not how easy our mission is but how capable we are of doing hard things

00:11The key is that you can't give up it doesn't matter what gender you are

00:14It doesn't matter what background you have it doesn't matter where you live

00:17It doesn't matter what school you go to

00:19You can do it

00:20If you keep putting your hand up and keep moving forward on the walls in my bedroom when I was a little girl there were

00:25All these pictures of space in Antarctica. Those are the two things I loved and so when I grew up

00:31Those are my dreams that I actually brought to fruition

00:44There are gonna be a lot of firsts they're all gonna be exciting I can tell you I can't wait to do a spacewalk

00:49Obviously, that's so true

00:50I can't wait to be a part of exciting science

00:52But I would say the overarching thing that connects all this all those various things

00:56I'm excited about together is the opportunity to give back to a program that I have loved since I was young

01:03I entered the army through West Point the US Military Academy. I majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering

01:10I got two master's degrees one in aerospace engineering one in international security

01:14Deployed to Iraq a couple times and was selected for NASA directly after test pilot school

01:20I went to North Carolina State University and there I double majored in

01:25Physics and electrical engineering and then I went on to get a master's in electrical engineering there

01:30I've spent about three and a half years of my life either in the Arctic or Antarctic

01:33And I like it because it's on the frontiers of the planet. We humans were built for exploration and we were built to do it together