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The Dragon cargo capsule, meanwhile, set off after the space station carrying 5,000 pounds of equipment and supplies including an automated 3D cardiac tissue "printer," research by Goodyear that could lead to improved tires, refurbished spacesuit components and a docking mechanism to replace one lost in a 2015 Falcon 9 launch failure.

Also on sale among items from the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury missions, with bidding starting at $3,000, is a prototype spacesuit glove (right) made for US astronaut Russell

"If that spacesuit fails, that's it," Davidson says.

Primary school-aged children across Dumfries and Galloway are now being invited by the national tourism organisation to name the cuddly toy which will be sent almost 40,000 metres into the stratosphere wearing a Clan Armstrong tartan spacesuit.

Astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were scheduled to complete the operation last week but "due in part to spacesuit availability on the station" the plans had been changed.

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However, due to McClain requesting a change in her spacesuit size less than a week ago, only Koch will spacewalk with a male colleague on the 29th.

Muscat : A historic first all-female spacewalk was cancelled due to spacesuit complications, NASA has said.

However, for International Space Station astronauts an ill-fitted spacesuit marred what would have been a historic all-women spacewalk.

McClain worked outside the station last week and with Hague and when she realized that a medium"-sized upper half of her spacesuit fit her better.Because only one medium-size torso can be made ready by Friday, March 29, Koch will wear it," NASA explained.

What should have been a giant leap for womankind has turned into a stumble on the path to equality after US space agency Nasa cancelled the first all-female spacewalk due to a lack of a spacesuit in the right size.