WOMEN ASTRONAUTS

On June 16, 1963 Russian Cosmonaut, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA, became the very first female to fly in space.  It was almost 20 years before the second Russian woman ventured into space.  SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA was the first woman to walk in space (July 25, 1984) while on an expedition to the Salyut 7 space station, and the first woman to make two spaceflights. 

 

SALLY RIDE was the first American female astronaut to fly into space (Jun. 18, 1983 and Oct. 5, 1984).  JUDITH RESNIK was the first Jewish-American in space. Reskin died on her second flight, in the Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger disaster, along with CHRISTA MCAULIFFE.

 

KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN was the first American woman to walk in space (Oct. 11, 1984).   There have been 56 women astronauts, 44 of them were from the United States.

 

QUIZ: Who was the First African-American woman in space?

ANSWER: MAE JEMISON

 

Source:  wikipedia.org