Hon Chairperson, I move without notice on behalf of the ANC:
That the House-
1) applauds United States astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk on
Friday, 18 October 2019, following a spacesuit flub earlier this year that caused the historic mission to be aborted;
2) acknowledges that Ms Koch was leading Ms Meir, in her first ever spacewalk, where the two replaced a faulty battery charge- discharge unit, BCDU;
3) understands that the station relies on solar power but is out of direct sunlight for much of its orbit and therefore needs batteries, and the BCDUs regulate the amount of charge that goes into them; and
4) congratulates both the astronauts for their history-making spacewalk.
Agreed to.