First Woman To Go To Space
Sally ride becomes the first american woman in space on june 18 1983 the space shuttle challenger is launched into space on its second mission.
First woman to go to space. She spoke the following words while traveling in the weightlessness of space you are just your intelligence. Jemison during space shuttle mission sts 47. Soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes the first woman in space on june 16 1963 aboard vostok 6 soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space.
The first woman in space soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova flew in 1963. Her call sign in this flight was chaika russian. Tereshkova then 25 was chosen to be the first woman to go into space for multiple reasons.
After a two hour countdown vostok 6 launched faultlessly and tereshkova became the first woman in space. Seagull later commemorated as the name of an asteroid 1671 chaika. Ride who as a.
Her first space mission began on november 19 1997 as part of the six astronaut crew that flew the space shuttle columbia flight sts 87. First there was the fact that she conformed to the height and weight specifications to fit inside the. Jemison logged 190 hours 30 minutes 23 seconds in space and orbited the earth 127 times.
She remains the only woman to fly to space solo and the youngest at 26 years old. Since then many women from a range of countries have worked in space though overall women are still significantly less often chosen than men to go to space. On board the shuttle is dr.
As one of the three mission specialists on the sts 7 mission she played a vital role in helping deploy communications satellites conduct experiments and make use of the first shuttle pallet satellite. On june 18 1983 sally ride became the first american woman to fly in space when the space shuttle challenger launched on mission sts 7. Valentina tereshkova was the first woman to go into space.