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She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, [ 4 ...
The flight set a space endurance record which was broken in 1965 by the (non-solo) Gemini 5 flight. The Apollo program included long solo spaceflight, and during the Apollo 16 mission, Ken Mattingly orbited solo around the Moon for more than 3 days and 9 hours.
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has become the titleholder for longest single space mission ever performed by a woman.
[6] [7] In 2009, she became the first woman to serve as NASA's Chief Astronaut, the most senior position in the NASA Astronaut Corps. [8] In 2017, Whitson became the first woman to command the International Space Station twice. Her 289-day flight was the longest single space flight by a woman [9] [10] until Christina Koch's 328-day flight. [11]
[5] [6] On December 28, 2019, Koch broke the record for longest continuous time in space by a woman. [7] She returned from space on February 6, 2020. [8] Koch was selected as part of the crew for the Artemis II flight, which intends to circle the Moon in 2026 which, if successful, will make her the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
The flight only lasted about 10 minutes, but the six members of the crew experienced weightlessness and were able to see Earth from space. The flight launched from Blue Origin’s West Texas ...
She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman.