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Soviet Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, launched in 1963 aboard the Soviet Vostok 6. The first woman to fly in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a textile factory worker who was an avid amateur parachutist, as parachuting was necessary for the Earth landing which was made outside the reentry capsule. [18]
The role of women in and affiliated with NASA has varied over time. As early as 1922 women were working as physicists and in other technical positions. [1] Throughout the 1930s to the present, more women joined the NASA teams not only at Langley Memorial, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Glenn Research Center, and other numerous NASA sites throughout the United States. [2]
Similarly, women from Canada, Japan, and America have all flown under the US space program. A span of one year separated the first and second American women in space, [4] as well as the first and second Chinese women in space, taking place on consecutive missions, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10. [5]
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Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.K. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced spacewalkers with eight spacewalks (second most for a woman) and a total time of 56 hours and 40 minutes (eleventh overall).
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He was able to fund the unofficial program, the Woman in Space program, [1] and invited 25 women to come and take the physical tests. Lovelace was interested in the way that women's bodies would react to being in space. Cobb was the first American woman (and the only one of the Mercury 13) to undergo and pass all three phases of testing.
First Lady Astronaut Trainees, participants in the 1960s privately-funded Woman in Space Program, commonly known as the Mercury 13 The Lady Astronaut Universe , a 2012–2024 series of books by Mary Robinette Kowal