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WOMEN IN SPACE
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• Cavendish, Margaret
• Cobb, Geraldyn ("Jerrie")
• Collins, Eileen
• Jemison, Mae C.
• Lucid, Shannon
• McAuliffe, S. Christa Corrigan
• Mercury Thirteen
• Resnick, Judith A.
• Ride, Sally
• Savitskaya, Svetlana
• Sullivan, Kathryn
• Tereshkova, Valentina
| Women in space: timeline | |
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| 1959 | Geraldine (Jerrie) Cobb passes tests for the Mercury astronaut training program |
| 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut, becomes the first woman in space |
| 1978 | Six women chosen as astronaut candidates by NASA: Rhea Seddon, Kathryn Sullivan, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Anna Fisher and Shannon Lucid |
| 1983 | Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space |
| 1984 | Svetlana Savitskaya,
Soviet cosmonaut, becomes first woman to walk in space. Kathryn Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space. Anna Fisher becomes the first person to retrieve a malfunctioning satellite, using the orbiter remote manipulator arm |
| 1992 | Kathy Thornton, the second woman to walk in space,
holds record for longest space walk by a woman as of 2002. Bonnie Dunbar and Ellen Baker are among the first American crew to doc with the Russian space station. Mae Jemison becomes first African American woman in space |
| 1993 | Ellen Ochoa becomes first Hispanic American woman in space |
| 1994 | Chiaki Mukai becomes the first Japanese woman in space |
| 1995 | Eileen Collins becomes first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle |
| 1996 | Shannon Lucid returns from her six months on Mir, the Russian space station, with a record for the time in space for women and for Americans; she is also the first woman to be awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor |
| 1998 | Nearly 2/3 of the flight control team for STS-95
were women, including the launch commentator, Lisa Malone, the ascent
commentator, Eileen Hawley, the flight directory, Linda Harm, and
the communicator between crew and mission control, Susan Still. Nancy Currie completes the first task in assembling the International Space Station |
| 1999 | Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle |
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