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Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration, and it would be almost twenty years before another flew (Svetlana Savitskaya). By the end of the 1980s, women in space had become more common.
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.
Aug 10, 2023 · Keisha and 18-year-old Ana Mayers, from Antigua, have become the first mother-daughter duo to go to the edge of space. And on a day of firsts, 80-year-old Jon Goodwin became the firm's first fee...
Apr 12, 2021 · Frances ‘Poppy’ Northcutt became the first female engineer to work at Mission Control during NASA’s Apollo 8 mission. This trend continues today and into the further reaches of space. Computer scientist Katie Bouman helped develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole.
Feb 20, 2024 · Proctor paved the way for women and the African-American community in 2021 as part of Inspiration4, the world's first all-civilian mission to orbit in space. At 51, Proctor also made history...
She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.
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The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin’s first human-crewed flight in space.
