NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, center, is seen with Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Col., left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., as they watch the beginning of the first all-woman spacewalk on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, center, is seen with Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Col., left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., as they watch the beginning of the first all-woman spacewalk on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The first all-woman spacewalk in history began at 7:38 a.m. EDT with NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir venturing outside the International Space Station to replace a failed battery charge-discharge unit. This is the fourth spacewalk for Koch and Meir’s first.