The first-ever female spacewalking team, including an Israeli astronaut, exited the International Space Station on Friday.

Swedish-American-Israeli Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are repairing a broken part of the station’s solar-power network.

The 41-year-old Jessica Meir was born in the United States to a Jewish Iraqi-Israeli father and Native American-Swedish mother and holds a dual American-Swedish citizenship. She was selected by NASA back in 2013.

Jessica claims that, despite her mother being Christian, she and her brothers see themselves as Jews and occasionally visit a synagogue. “I’m not religious, but my background is culturally Jewish,” she said.

Furthermore, among the three items each austronaust is allowed to take with them on the mission, Jessica decided to take an Israeli flag and a pair of socks with an image of a menorah on them.

By JNS and combined Sources