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In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on her Vostok 6 flight of 48 orbits, and is the only woman to fly solo in space. 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.
Alan Shepard, the first American and the second person in space. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman and 12th person in space. Alexei Leonov, joint 17th in space and first to perform an EVA. John Young, 19th person in space, first to fly solo around the Moon and first to command a Space Shuttle.
Canada has sent two women to space. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman to fly in space, on the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1992. [90] The second Canadian woman astronaut is Julie Payette from Montreal. Payette was part of the crew of STS-96, on the Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999.
Roberta Lynn Bondar (/ ˈ b ɒ n d ər /; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant.She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
Magdalena Zeger [de; es; ja] (around 1491–1568), calendar maker, astronomer, first women to publish independently in the field of astronomy; Lyudmila Zhuravlyova (born 1946), Russian-Ukrainian astronomer who discovered minor planets; Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist
The pioneering astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission have a packed agenda during their five short days in space, but medical officer Anna Menon still found time to read to her children from orbit.
She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest ...
Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space, speaks to a crowd of mostly Latino students in the gym at Parlier High School on Aug. 29, 2024.