Women in Space

There have been many women suit up and head into space 
and there will be many more. 
Here is a list of "firsts".

The following information is from
Pioneering women in space



  1. On June 16, 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova launched aboard a Soviet Vostok 6 rocket, becoming the first-ever woman in space. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space and is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission

  2. 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.

  3. NASA astronaut Mae Jemison flew on space shuttle Endeavour in September 1992, becoming the first African-American woman to travel to space.

  4. NASA astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, a role that required an astronaut to have at least 1,000 hours of experience piloting jet aircraft. Collins commanded the STS-93 space shuttle mission in July 1999, and went on to command a second time in July 2005

  5. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson became the first woman to command the International Space Station when she took the helm of the outpost in April 2008 during Expedition 16.

  6. The first woman to complete a spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA), was Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya.

  7. NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk when she floated outside the space shuttle Challenger during mission STS-41-G on Oct. 11, 1984.

  8. First woman to spend (nearly) 1 year in space: Christina Koch. In April 2019, NASA announced that Expedition 59 astronaut Christina Koch's mission at the International Space Station would be extended to last 328 days. She broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman — a record that was previously held by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who spent 289 consecutive days in space from 2016 to 2017.

  9. On October 18, 2019Christian Koch and Jessica Meir participated in the first ever all female space walk.

  10. First teacher in space: Barbara Morgan

  11. NASA's original plan to send the first teacher to space was thwarted when Christa McAuliffe and her six crewmates were killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed just after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986

  12. NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins became the first researcher to sequence DNA in space during her first mission to the International Space Station in 2016, when she spent 115 days working as a flight engineer for Expedition 48.

  13. First Briton in space: Helen Sharman

  14. British food chemist and private citizen Helen Sharman became the first British person to fly in space when she visited the Mir space station aboard the Soyuz TM-12 in May 1991. During this flight, she also became the first woman to visit the Mir space station.

  15. First Canadian woman in space: Roberta Bondar. Roberta became Canada's first female astronaut when she flew on the STS-42 space shuttle mission in 1992.

  16. First Japanese woman in space – Chiake Mukai

  17. Columbia mission STS-65, July 1994

  18. Doctor Claudie Haignere became the first and only french woman top travel to space when she flew to the Russian space station Mir in 1996. In 2001 she was also the first European woman to visit the ISS

  19. The first female member of an ISS crew was NASA astronaut Susam Helms who served as a flight engineer March to August 2001 

  20. Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari became the first female space tourists to the ISS in 2006

  21. South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon became that countries first space traveler in April 2008

  22. Sunita Williams became the first person to officially run the Boston Marathon in space (2007)

  23. China's first female astronaut was Liu Wang, June 19, 2012

  24. Peggy Whitson ahs spen a total of 665 days, 22 ours and 22 minutes in space and has logged more time in space than any other U.S. astronaut, male or female.

  25. Four women serving together on the ISS in April, 2010 represented the highest number of women in space simultaneously.
UPDATE



After uploading this post a reply came in with a reminder
that in November 1957, Laika, a stray female mongrel from the streets of Moscow,   became the first animal launched into Earth orbit.

Laika is memorialised in the form of a statue and plaque at Star City, Russia, the Russian Cosmonaut training facility. Created in 1997, Laika is positioned behind the cosmonauts with her ears erect.The Monument to the Conquerors of Space, constructed in 1964, also includes Laika. On 11 April 2008 at the military research facility where staff had been responsible for readying Laika for the flight, officials unveiled a monument of her poised on top of a space rocket.

Stamps and envelopes picturing Laika were produced [1]

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