{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcsally.senate.gov/senate-unanimously-passes-mcsally-backed-resolution-honoring-first-all-female-spacewalk", "Senate Unanimously Passes McSally-Backed Resolution Honoring First All-Female Spacewalk", "2019-12-11", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Martha McSally", "M001197", "www.mcsally.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The resolution was cosponsored by all 25 women Senators\nU.S. SENATE Last night, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution cosponsored by U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) and all 24 of her female colleagues congratulating astronauts Dr. Jessica U. Meir and Christina H. Koch for the historic accomplishment of completing the first all-female spacewalk.The bipartisan resolution also supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) efforts to fully integrate women into the astronaut corps and ensure that one of the next humans to walk on the moon will be a woman.\nOn October 18, 2019, Dr. Meir and Ms. Koch conducted a seven hour and seven minute spacewalk to replace a power controllerthe first all-female spacewalk in history, and the 14th and 15th women, respectively, to conduct a spacewalk.\nI join my fellow female Senate colleagues in congratulating Dr. Jessica Meir and Christina Koch on the completion of NASA's first all-female spacewalk earlier this year, Senator McSally said. Their historic achievement will serve as inspiration for generations to come and is long overdue.\nDr. Meir is a native of Caribou, Maine. She has a degree in biology from Brown University, a master's in space studies from the International Space University, and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.\nMs. Koch is a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has a degree in electrical engineering and physics, as well as a master's degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.\nIn 2013, Dr. Meir and Ms. Koch were among the four women and four men selected from 6,100 applications for NASA's 21st class of astronauts and began training for future space flights. NASA first began to admit women into its astronaut program in 1978.\nClickHEREto read the resolution.\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcsally.senate.gov/senate-unanimously-passes-mcsally-backed-resolution-honoring-first-all-female-spacewalk"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4380291104316711, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}