US astronaut Peggy Whitson waves to the crowd at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in November 2016.-AFP
Miami (AFP) - American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman.
Whitson, 57, is making her eighth career spacewalk, surpassing the record of seven previously held by American Suni Williams.
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