John Young and Bob Crippen
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when she launched aboard the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She was not the pilot on this mission, but she went on to become the first woman to fly the space shuttle in 1984.
It was designed to fly in space, and its first mission was another test of the space shuttle.
The first space shuttle to fly in space was named Columbia. It completed its maiden flight on April 12, 1981.
The space shuttle that Sally Ride traveled on for her first space mission was the Space Shuttle Challenger. Ride made history in 1983 as the first American woman to fly in space.
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No. The first shuttle that flew was the Enterprise. The first that traveled into space was Columbia
The first Space Shuttle, named Columbia, took off into space on April 12, 1981.
The first male pilot to fly the space shuttle was Robert Crippen. He piloted the space shuttle Columbia on its maiden flight, STS-1, in 1981.
Valery V Ryumin was the ninth and final Russian cosmonaut to fly to Mir on an American Space Shuttle. He flew on STS-91.
Sally Ride made history by becoming the first American woman in space in 1983 aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Mae Jemison Became the first African American woman to fly to space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on the 12th of September 1992.
Colonel Eileen Collins, USAF, retired, became the first female Space Shuttle pilot on STS-63, aboard Discovery; and the first female Space Shuttle commander on STS-93, aboard Columbia; She also commanded Discovery on STS-114, the first mission after the Columbia disaster. As far as the first woman to fly ABOARD the Space Shuttle, that would be Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, aboard the Challenger, on STS-7.