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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
First female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot [18] [19] First African-American commercial astronaut [20] First African-American woman to pilot a spacecraft [21] Inspiration4 (Sep. 16, 2021) 69 Hayley Arceneaux Dec. 9, 1991 United States: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor, who is now a physician assistant
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Kathy is not just an ivory-tower scientist. She was part of NASA's first class of female astronauts, selected in 1978, and went on to fly three shuttle missions. She is the first American woman to walk in space and served aboard the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history as the first American woman astronaut to go into space. [8] About more than a year later, Judith Resnik took the Space Shuttle Discovery into space and became the second American woman in space. [7] [8] In 1988, Ellen Ochoa joined NASA and became the first Hispanic woman astronaut. [12]
This was the first time a woman had piloted the Space Shuttle. [55] Delays in the flight schedule meant that she was the second-last member of her class to fly in space. [56] Two more women pilots joined the Astronaut Corps in 1995 with NASA Astronaut Group 15: Pamela Melroy and Susan Still. They would be the only other women to pilot the Space ...
NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly as early as next ...
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space. She retired from NASA in 2018, after serving as Chief Astronaut . [ 3 ] Over all her missions, Whitson accumulated a total of 675 days in space, more than any other American or woman.