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WATCH: 2 American Women Astronauts Venture Out For First All-Female Spacewalk

In what NASA is calling "HERstory" in space, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir stepped outside the International Space Station on Friday to replace a bad battery charger.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir began conducting the first-ever all-female spacewalk Friday morning.

Updated at 10 a.m. ET

Almost precisely 35 years after the first American woman walked in space, NASA is setting another milestone Friday morning, with astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir conducting the first all-female spacewalk.

Koch, an engineer, and Meir, a biologist, suited up and entered the "crew lock" that serves as the

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