Kathryn Thornton.
Valentina Tereshkova
She was the first woman astronaut!
She was the first black woman to go to space.
She changed the world by becoming the first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova and she was from the Soviet Union.
Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian female astronaut, went into space on January 22, 1992.
She was the first female space shuttle pilot, first female space shuttle commander, and the first pilot to take the shuttle through a 360 degree pitch maneuver
Colonel Guion Bluford was the first black astronaut to orbit the earth; this occurred in 1983. The first black female astronaut was Dr. Mae Jemison, in 1992.
Dr. Ride was the first female American astronaut to go into space.
Mae Jamison was the first black female astronaut, and she is still alive. She was born in 1956.