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!
first female space shuttle comander
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
Eileen Collins
Kathryn Thornton.
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.
The first female in space was Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва) - June 16-19th, 1963, aboard the Russian / Soviet Vostok-6 spacecraft.