USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) was the first woman in space. She flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.
The first female American astronaut, and third woman in space, was Sally Kristen Ride, who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in June, 1983.
YURI GAGRIN WAS THE FIRST MAN and Valentina was the first women to go in space
No but she was the first black woman to go to space.
Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to go to space. She took part in the Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 1997 and in 2003, unfortunately, lost her life during the re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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The first Hispanic woman to go to space was Ellen Ochoa, who made her first spaceflight in 1993 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. She is also the first Hispanic director of the Johnson Space Center.
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Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Sally ride was the first woman to go into space.
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