First Woman In Space Usa

Cnn when the space shuttle challenger launched on june 18 1983 astronaut sally ride became the first american woman in space.
First woman in space usa. Female astronauts went on to become commonplace in the 1980s. On june 16 1963 she was launched in the spacecraft vostok 6 which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours. Sally kristen ride may 26 1951 july 23 2012 was an american astronaut and physicist. Valentina tereshkova in full valentina vladimirovna tereshkova born march 6 1937 maslennikovo russia u s s r soviet cosmonaut the first woman to travel into space.
Ride was the third woman in space overall after ussr cosmonauts valentina tereshkova 1963 and svetlana savitskaya 1982. 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. On board the shuttle is dr. 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.
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space sorted by date of first flight. Woman in space sally ride sts 7. When sally ride took her. June 18 24 1983 she was the third woman in space overall after valentina tereshkova above and svetlana savitskaya who flew on soyuz t 7 august 19 1982.
Kathy sullivan who became the first american woman to walk in space in 1984 has reached a new low becoming the first woman to reach challenger deep. Ride who as a. Although the first woman flew into space in 1963 very early in crewed space exploration it would not be until almost twenty years later that another flew. 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.
At 32 years old she was also the youngest american to ever rocket. Born in los angeles she joined nasa in 1978 and became the first american woman in space in 1983. Valentina tereshkova was the first woman to go into space.