SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Sally Ride (1951-2012) | NASA Astronaut / First American Woman in Space – NASA Solar System Exploration.

Detailed explanation-2: -As of August 2022, of the 621 total space travelers (FAI), 70 have been women. There have been one each from France, Italy, South Korea, and the United Kingdom; two each from Canada, China, and Japan; five from the Soviet Union/Russia; and 55 from the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -As of March 2022, 75 women have flown in space, including cosmonauts, astronauts, payload specialists, and space station participants. The first woman in space was Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who flew on Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Aboard Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas, U.S.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin’s first human-crewed flight in space.

Detailed explanation-6: -Robert Hines. Samantha Cristoforetti. Denis Matveev. Oleg Artemyev. Sergey Korsakov. Jessica Watkins. Kjell Lindgren. Raja Chari. Thomas Marshburn. Matthias Maurer. Anton Shkaplerov. Pyotr Dubrov. Kayla Barron. Mark Vande Hei. Kate Rubins. Victor Glover. Soichi Noguchi. Sergey Ryzhikov. Michael Hopkins. Shannon Walker.