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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. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
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.
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
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.
In “The Six: The Untold Stories of America’s First Women Astronauts,” Loren Grush recounts the pressures and challenges faced by NASA’s first class of female astronauts.
The first woman in space was cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who orbited Earth 48 times from June 16 to 18, 1963. Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may ...
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 .
On Sept. 12, 1992, Jemison boarded the space shuttle "Endeavor" and with six other astronauts, orbited the earth. Her trip to the stars landed Jemison in the history books as the first Black woman ...