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Total Number of People Who Have Been in Space (USAF definition) - 474 Total Number of People Who Have Been in Space (FAI definition) - 468 Total Number of People Who Have Been in Earth Orbit - 465 Of these, 47 have been women.
I found all this information at http://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/stats.php
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∙ 14y agoThe count as of August, 2009 stands at 51. (Four have died in flight.) (* Christa McAuliffe, who was to have been the first Teacher in Space, was killed in the Challenger takeoff explosion in January, 1986, along with astronaut Judith Resnik. McAuliffe did not reach space and is not listed below. Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark were killed in the reentry breakup of the shuttle Columbia in February, 2003.) Female spaceflight personnel by year : * 1963 : Valentina Tereshkova (USSR - first woman in space) * 1965 : Svetlana Savitskaya (USSR - second woman in space, first to spacewalk / EVA ) * 1983 : Sally Kristen Ride (USA - third woman, first American woman) * 1984 : *Judith Resnik (USA - mission specialist aboard 1st flight Discovery, killed in 1986 on Challenger) * 1984 : Kathryn Sullivan (USA - 3 shuttle flights, first American woman to spacewalk / EVA ) * 1984 : Anna Fisher (USA, shuttle payload specialist) * 1985 : Shannon Lucid (USA - 7 shuttle flights, 1 extended mission 179 days aboard MIR space station 1996) * 1985 : Margaret Seddon (USA - payload specialist, 3 shuttle missions through 1993) * 1985 : Bonnie Dunbar (USA - payload specialist , 5 shuttle flights through 1998) * 1985 : Mary Cleave (USA - made 2 shuttle flights, 1985 and 1989, ground CAPCOM on five others) * 1989 : Kathryn Thornton (USA - 4 shuttle flights, 1st American woman to make multiple EVA's) * 1989 : Ellen Baker (USA - 3 shuttle missions 1989, 1992, and 1995) * 1990 : Marsha Ivins (USA - 5 flights thru 2001) * 1991 : Helen Sharman (UK - 1st Briton in space aboard Soyuz; flew to MIR but did not stay, returned to Earth in the previous Soyuz craft at MIR) * 1991 : Millie Hughes-Fulford (USA - biological payload specialist, 1 shuttle flight) * 1991 : Linda Godwin (USA - 4 shuttle missions thru 2001, visited both MIR and International Space Station- ISS) * 1991 : Tamara Jernigan (USA - mission specialist 5 shuttle missions thrum 1999) * 1992 : Mae Jemison (USA - physician and 1st African-American female in space) * 1992 : Roberta Bondar (first female Canadian astronaut, neurologist, worked in Spacelab) * 1992 : Nancy J. Davis (USA doctor, 3 shuttle missions thru 1997) * 1993 : Susan Helms (later USAF Brigadier General, 5 flights thru 2001, one stay ISS 2001) * 1993 : Nancy Currie (US Army engineer and pilot, flew 4 shuttle missions thru 2002) * 1993 : Janice Voss (USA - mission specialist 5 shuttle flights thru 2000) * 1993 : Ellen Ochoa (USA - 1st Hispanic woman in space, 4 flights thru 2002) * 1994 : Yelena Kondakova - ( 3rd Soviet/Russian female in space, flew Soyuz to MIR and later on space shuttle 1997) * 1994 : Chiaki Mukai (Japan-USA 1st Japanese female in space, 2 shuttle flights thru 1998) * 1995 : Wendy Lawrence (US Navy CAPT and Naval Academy gradute, 4 shuttle missions thru 2005 - flew to MIR twice) * 1995 : Eileen Collins (USAF test pilot, flew 5 shuttle missions thru 2005 , 1st female pilot, 1st female Shuttle Mission Commander) * 1995 : Catherine Coleman (USAF officer, made 2 shuttle flights 1995 and 1999) * 1995 : Mary Weber (USA - skydiver and pilot, made 2 shuttle flights 1995 and 2000) * 1996 : Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré - (France, 4 Soyuz flights, both to MIR and ISS, 1st French female in space) * 1996 : Joan Higginbotham (USA - mission specialist) * 1997 : Susan (Still) Kilrain (U.S. Navy CDR - shuttle pilot 2 flights 1997) * 1998 : Kathryn Hire (US Navy CAPT, veteran of Iraq War 2001-03) * 1998 : Janet Kavandi (USA - 3 shuttle missions thru 2001) * 1999 : Julie Payette (Canadian - robotic arm specialist, NASA ground CAPCOM) * 2000 : Pamela Melroy (retired USAF COL and Gulf War veteran, 3 shuttle flights, third as commander, thru 2007) * 2002 : Peggy Whitson (USA, 4 space flights thru 2007, longest cumulative female duration in space, 376 days, with two ISS stays ; most EVAs by female : 5) * 2002 : Sandra Magnus (USA engineer * aboard International Space Station Nov. 2008 to Feb. 2009 * one other shuttle flight 2002) * 2003 : *Kalpana Chawla (1st Indian-American woman, died in the Columbia disaster) * 2003 : *Laurel Clark (decorated U.S. Navy Flight Surgeon, died in the Columbia disaster) * 2006: Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), 4th "space tourist" (1st female, 1st female Muslim, first Iranian in space) * 2006 : Sunita Williams (US Navy CDR, 1st Indian-American female in space, longest female spaceflight - 195 days including ISS stay) * 2006 : Lisa Nowak (US Navy CAPT, robotic arm specialist - later indicted in 'love triangle' with male astronaut and pending trial) * 2006 : Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (US Navy CAPT, 2 shuttle flights, 1st "space litterbug", losing tool bag still visible from Earth) * 2007 : Tracy Caldwell (chemist, shuttle mission specialist) * 2007 : Stephanie Wilson (USA - 2nd African-American female in space) * 2007 : Barbara Morgan (USA - backup to Christa McAuliffe as Teacher in Space, 1986, finally flew 21 years later after teaching career) * 2008 : Karen Nyberg (USA shuttle specialist, became the "50th woman in space") * 2008 : Yi So-yeon (Flew in Soyuz mission to ISS, 1st Korean woman, 2nd Asian woman in space) * 2009 : Kathryn Megan McArthur (Hubble telescope specialist) (As above, a 52 total would include McAuliffe, so Yi So-Yeon was technically the 50th woman to fly in space, instead of Karen Nyberg) (see related links)
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∙ 12y agoAs of April 5, 2010, a total of 517 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, (523 people have qualified when including the Department of Defense classification). Of those totals, 3 people completed only a sub-orbital flight, 514 people reached earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low earth orbit and 12 walked on the moon. Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.
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∙ 12y ago24 or 25 of rockets were launched in space.
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∙ 12y ago500 people have been too space
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∙ 14y agoon average from 1995 to 2009 23
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What pieces of equipment have actually flown through and studied most of the solar system?
the space shuttle for one
Have robots landed on Saturn?
No. Space probes have orbited and flown by Saturn, but nothing can land there. Saturn is a gas planet, and therefore does not have a definite surface.
What rockets have flown to mars?
none no rocket has ever flown to mars as it is to humid but nasa sent satellites over there many times and have sent rovers , little robots with cameras roaming around it, many ofd them are called mars rover then are named with a specific botname
How many satellites probes have been to neptune?
The Voyager I and the Voyager II are the only space probes to visit Neptune. They landed in the 1980s.
How many Indian gps satellites are there in space?
how many satellites present in the space
How many girls have been to space?
About 10 so far.======================Answer #2: (Update)55 different women total including cosmonauts, astronauts, payload specialists,and foreign nationals have flown in space.-- 6 different female cosmonauts have flown on the Soviet/Russian program-- 1 female astronaut or taikonaut has flown in the Chinese program-- 48 different women have flown with NASA. 43 of these were Americans.
How many space shuttle flights has NASA flown?
As of the end of February 2010, NASA has flown 130 space shuttle flights, two of them ending in catastrophe.
How many women have flown to orbit as nasa astronauts?
More than 40 women
How many space shuttles have flown to space?
6 TotalChallenger, Columbia,Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour, and Buran (Soviet reusable spacecraft) There have been six Space Shuttles. Five have flown in space. The first, Enterprise, flew only in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the difference between a airplane and a space craft?
because a airplane is flown by wings and a space craft is flown by something else
What was the name of the first space shuttle flown into space?
the challenger
How many times has challenger flown into space?
Challenger had 10 flights if you include the accident in 1986.
What animal has been flown into space?
y
How many people have flown in space?
just enough just enough just enough just enough
When was the first rocket flown into space?
Rockets are not flown. They are launched and ancient China had rockets. They invented gunpowder.
What was the first space shuttle flown into space?
the short answer is the space shuttle Columbia on STS-1
How many of people who flew on Space Shuttle missions were women?
Women who flew on the Space Shuttle by country: 44 American 2 Canadian 2 Japanese 1 Russian 49 total This includes Christa McAuliffe, who died on the Challenger on January 28, 1986. FYI: The Russian (Soviet) space program has also launched 7 women in space who did not fly on the shuttle (as of 6-15-2010), and there have been 4 women who have flown on both the shuttle and the Russian program, for a total of 56 women in space. The first was Valentina Tereshkova launched on the Soviet program on June 16, 1963.
