The first woman to fly in space was Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok VI in 1983.
The first Briton of either sex to fly in space was Helen Sharman, who in 1991 flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz TM-12 and visited the MIR space station.
The first woman (not girl) in space was from Russia-- her name was Valentina Tereshkova, and she flew her first mission in 1963. In America, the first woman astronaut was Sally Ride, who flew her first mission in 1983. (It should be noted that as far back as the 1960s, several other qualified American women, most notably Jerrie Cobb, tried to persuade NASA to allow women to fly into space, but NASA was very resistant to having women astronauts at that time.)
No woman has been on the moon, yet - only twelve men, and only Americans. She was the first American woman to go into space. The first woman to go into space was a Russian - Valentina Tereshkova - in 1963, twenty years before Sally Ride made it.
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Madame Therese Peltier was the first white woman to fly a plane
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly in space.
Shannon Lucid was the first woman in Oklahoma to fly in space. She was inducted in Oklahoma's Women Hall of Fame.
Tereshkova flew out on June 16, 1963---the first woman to fly in space.
She was the first american woman to fly in space.
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
1963.Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. She was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963 and become the first woman to fly in space.
Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet engineer, was the first woman to fly into space. She was also the first civilian to fly into space.
1963.Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. She was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963 and become the first woman to fly in space.
Yuri Gagarin is the first person to fly in space.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, born 6 March 1937, was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
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.
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?