Women in Space - Take a look at this gallery of amazing women who helped blaze humanity’s trail in space (including recently deceased astronaut Sally Ride). From the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, to female space tourist Anousheh Ansari, to Yi So-yeon who became the first astronaut of her entire nation, this is a great tribute to women in space and inspiration to all of us.
In June 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space when she launched on the STS-7 mission of the space shuttle Challenger. She was the third woman in space, after Valentina Tereshkova and Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, who flew on the Soyuz T-7 mission August 19, 1982.
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