United States space agency NASA announced that an upcoming spacewalk will be conducted by an all-female crew for the first time ever. The news comes during Women's History Month.

Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain will exit the International Space Station on March 29. This marks 35 years after the first woman, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, performed a spacewalk.
Christina Koch Source: Nasa Anne McClain Source: NASA

Flight director Mary Lawrence and flight controllers Jackie Kagey and Kristen Facciol, according to CNN, will guide Koch and McClain from Earth.

"As currently scheduled, the March 29 spacewalk will be the first with only women," NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz told CNN. It will be the second in a series of three planned spacewalks. McClain also will join Nick Hague for a planned March 22 spacewalk.

The crew was set to launch into space on March 14 and complete a handful of tasks during the trip. Many portions will be televised.

NASA television coverage of the March 29 spacewalk is scheduled to start at 6:30 a.m. ET and last about seven hours. The mission of the spacewalk is to replace batteries that were installed last summer, the NASA website said.

McClain and Koch were part of NASA's 2013 astronaut candidate class, which had the second largest number of applicants, about 6,100, and half of the graduates were women. It will be McClain’s first time in space and Koch’s first spaceflight.

There have been 213 spacewalks from the ISS to date for various reasons, ranging from repairs, experiments or testing equipment.