Who is was the first American woman to be sent to space?

Answer 1

Sally RideDr. Sally Kristen Ride, on board the space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission on June 18, 1983. She was born on May 26, 1951 and is now retired from NASA.

Her flight took place almost exactly twenty years after the Vostok 6 flight of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, in June, 1963.

The first woman american in space is Sally Ride

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride broke through the ultimate glass ceiling, blasting into orbit on the shuttle Challenger as part of the crew of mission STS-7. Since her history-making flight, 39 female NASA astronauts have followed her into space, including shuttle commanders and an International Space Station commander.

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ride_gallery/
The first human was Sally Ride, although there was a female chimp launched in the sixties.
Sally Ride was the first woman that was sent to space. She went into space in 1983 aboard the Challenger space shuttle.
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union. Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963.
The First Woman in Space was...

A. Valentina Tershkova

Answer 2

Dr. Sally Kristen Ride was the first female astronaut to fly to space, on board the space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission on June 18, 1983. She was born on May 26, 1951 and is now retired from NASA. Selected in 1978 as the first group* of female astronauts were: Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon, Kathryn Sullivan, Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher and Shannon Lucid. * In 1960, many women hoping to become astronauts took the same physical and psychological tests given to the Mercury astronauts. The first woman to pass all these tests was Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb of Oklahoma. After an announcement of this, other women also took and passed the tests, and became known unofficially as FLAT's (First Lady Astronaut Trainees). NASA, however, would not waive their requirement that astronaut trainees be both jet pilots and engineering graduates.
Sally Kristen Ride. Her flight was aboard STS-7 on June 18th, 1983.

Answer 3

Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya (born August 8, 1948) was the first woman to walk in space, in 1984.

The "second woman in space", Svetlana Savitskaya, flew in August, 1982, with the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft to the orbiting Salyut 7 vehicle (nominally a space station) and was there for nearly 8 days. She returned for a 12-day mission in July, 1984 aboard the Soyuz T-12. During this second mission, she performed an EVA of 3 hours, 35 minutes on July 25, 1984.

Answer 4

The first female into space for the US was Dr. Sally Kristen Ride, on board the space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission on June 18, 1983. She was born on May 26, 1951 and is now retired from NASA. Her flight took place almost exactly twenty years after the Vostok 6 flight of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, in June, 1963. The next American woman to fly to space was Judith Resnik (1949-1986), who flew on the first shuttle Discovery flight in August, 1984. She was killed in the Challenger explosion in 1986. In 1984, she had been followed in close succession by Kathryn Sullivan (1st female US spacewalk) and Anna Fisher. The first African-American female in space was Mae Jemison, in September, 1992

Answer 5

The first female American astronaut in space was Sally Ride (b. May 26, 1951). She was the third woman in space, flying on space shuttle mission STS-7 on June 18, 1983.

Answer 6

Dr. Sally K. Ride

Answer 7

Sally Ride