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.
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
Dr. Sally K. Ride
Sally Ride
RussiaRussian (Soviet). The Russian sent a woman into space in the 1960's. The USA was planning to send a woman into space in the 1960's, but, did not do so, because President LBJ ordered NASA not to. The USA would not send a woman into space until the 1980's.
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The Soviet Union. They wanted an ordinary Russian girl with a common background and she had to be a good citizen. She is a 24 year old girl that works on her family's farm
The first nation to launch one of its citizens into earth orbit aboard a rocket-powered vehicle was the USSR.The altitude of his brief orbital sojourn could hardly be described as "outer space".The only humans to have traveled beyond low-earth-orbit so far were the Apollo astronauts who traveled to the moon ...about 1/4 million miles from earth, or roughly 1/4 of 1 percent of the distance to the sun. Though that too was hardly"outer space", it wasn't peanuts either.Apollo was a project of NASA in the US, and all of its astronauts were US citizens.
people were sent up into space to studdy the moon from the space ships
Sally Ride made history in 1983, when she was the first American woman in space. After NASA, Sally Ride became the director of the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego, as well as a professor of physics at the school in 1989. Sally Ride is not only the first American woman in space but she is also the youngest person to ever be sent into orbit.
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The first woman in space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut. She was on the Vostok 5 mission which launched on June 16, 1963. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride. She was on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7 in 1983.
RussiaRussian (Soviet). The Russian sent a woman into space in the 1960's. The USA was planning to send a woman into space in the 1960's, but, did not do so, because President LBJ ordered NASA not to. The USA would not send a woman into space until the 1980's.
Mercury.
Kalpana Chawla is famous for being the first Indian American astronaut, as well as the first Indian woman that was sent into space. She was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster in 2003.
Explorer 1
Well the first american in space was alan sheaperd, john glenn was first to orbit earth tho.
The first rocket the US sent up into space was the Jupiter C launch vehicle and its payload was Explorer 1 the first American Satellite.
valentina tereskhova,a russian.and the spacecraft is vostok 6
China
The first person to travel in space was Yuri Gagarin sent by Russia / the Soviet Union.