First Woman To Go To Space

Jemison during space shuttle mission sts 47.
First woman to go to space. On board the shuttle is dr. However space flight programs did not include women after her until the 1980s. First there was the fact that she conformed to the height and weight specifications to fit inside the. 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.
Ride who as a. She spoke the following words while traveling in the weightlessness of space you are just your intelligence. Valentina tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. She remains the only woman to fly to space solo and the youngest at 26 years old.
That was her only trip into. 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. After a two hour countdown vostok 6 launched faultlessly and tereshkova became the first woman in space. Tereshkova then 25 was chosen to be the first woman to go into space for multiple reasons.
In 1963 she spent almost three days in space and orbited earth 48 times in her space capsule vostok 6. 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. Jemison logged 190 hours 30 minutes 23 seconds in space and orbited the earth 127 times. Her call sign in this flight was chaika russian.
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. Chawla was the first indian woman to fly in space. 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. Seagull later commemorated as the name of an asteroid 1671 chaika.