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
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.
They were either sent to subcamps/woman camps or sent to death
June.
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.
Mercury.
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.
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.
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.
The first country to send a woman to space was the Soviet Union (now Russia). Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman to travel to space in 1963.
Well the first american in space was alan sheaperd, john glenn was first to orbit earth tho.
valentina tereskhova,a russian.and the spacecraft is vostok 6
The first American satellite sent into space was named Explorer 1. It was launched on January 31, 1958 as part of the United States' response to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik 1.
Laika a dog was the first animal in space it was sent by the soviet union
The USSR sent the first animals into space.