Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) in June 1963
Her first fligh was in 1983, on June 18
Laika, the Russian dog who was launched aboard Sputnik-2 and died in orbit, was the first female to travel into space.
There is no word fligh in English. The closest noun is flight, the noun form of the verb 'to fly'.
valatina tserashkova
no. Sally ride was 1 of the femal astronautes before her.although she is the first hispanic female astronaute to go into space
The first male is Marc Garneau.The first female is Roberta Bondar.They are the first male and female that went to NASA!
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African-American female astronaut. She flew into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.
Eileen Collins is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel. She became the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle mission. Collins has logged over 872 hours in space during her career.
She was the first female space shuttle pilot, first female space shuttle commander, and the first pilot to take the shuttle through a 360 degree pitch maneuver
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.
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to join NASA. She flew into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992, becoming the first African American woman to travel to space.
Kathryn Thornton.