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Detailed explanation-1: -Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to carry out a spacewalk on 25 July 1984. There have been 213 spacewalks at the ISS since 1998 for the purposes of maintenance, repairs, testing of new equipment or science experiments, according to Nasa.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA reached a milestone on Friday when two Americans, tasked with replacing a power controller, ventured out of the International Space Station: the astronauts, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, became the first to take part in an all-female spacewalk.

Detailed explanation-3: -First female spacewalker: Svetlana Savitskaya She launched on a Soyuz T-7 spacecraft on Aug. 19 , 1982 and spent returned to Earth eight days later. But it was during Savitskaya’s second trip to Salyut 7 in 1984 that she made history as the first woman to walk in space.

Detailed explanation-4: -On June 18, 1983, Dr. Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space. For the first 20 years of U.S. spaceflight, only military pilots could become astronauts.

Detailed explanation-5: -Peggy Whitson currently holds the record for a woman’s most time spent in space, recorded over the span of three 2002-2017 spaceflights.