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In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on her Vostok 6 flight of 48 orbits, and is the only woman to fly solo in space. The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Astronauts. It includes astronauts that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is List of women astronauts .
Wang Yaping became the second Chinese female astronaut as a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew, which orbited the Earth in June 2013, and of the Tiangong-1 orbiting space station with which it docked. In October 2021, Wang again flew on Shenzhou 13 where she became the first Chinese female astronaut to perform a spacewalk.
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) [1] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison.
Women astronauts (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Women in space" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3] She returned to Earth in Kazakhstan on October 30, 2016, aboard a Soyuz. [4]