Who was the first woman to be sent into space?
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova Valentina Tereshkova
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The <b>first woman in space</b> was a Soviet cosmonaut. Valentina Tereshkova 
<b>launched</b> with the Vostok 6 mission on June 16, 1963. The second woman 
overall to&nbsp;... To increase the odds of <b>sending</b> a Soviet <b>woman into space first</b>, the <b>female</b> 
cosmonauts began their training before the males. The rules required that the 
potential&nbsp;... Though the Soviet Union <b>sent</b> the <b>first</b> two <b>women into space</b>, only four of the 
<b>women in space</b> have been Russian or Soviet citizens. However, British, French
&nbsp;... Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut 
and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the 
<b>first</b> American <b>woman in space</b> in 1983. Ride was the third <b>woman in space</b> 
overall, after USSR cosmonauts ... NASA&#39;s GRAIL mission, which <b>sent</b> twin 
satellites to map the moon&#39;s gravity. In 2012, China became the third nation to <b>send women into space</b> with its own 
space program, ... On 16 June 2012, Major Liu Yang was the <b>first</b> Chinese 
<b>woman launched into space</b> aboard the Shenzhou 9 with two male counterparts 
to the&nbsp;... The <b>first woman in space</b> was Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, who <b>launched</b> on 
June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6 and orbited Earth for almost three days. Liu became the <b>first female</b> Chinese astronaut to go <b>into space</b>. The mission was 
<b>launched</b> on June 16, 2012, 49 years to the day after the <b>first female</b> space&nbsp;... Yelena Kondakova, 318th person <b>in space</b> and <b>first woman</b> to make a long-
duration spaceflight. Eileen Collins, the 322nd person <b>in space</b>, <b>first female</b> 
commander&nbsp;... Human spaceflight is space travel with a crew or passengers aboard the 
spacecraft. Spacecraft ... The USSR <b>launched</b> the first human <b>in space</b>, Yuri 
Gagarin, into a single orbit in Vostok 1 on a Vostok ... The USSR <b>launched</b> five 
more cosmonauts in Vostok capsules, including the <b>first woman in space</b>, 
Valentina Tereshkova&nbsp;... By May 16, 1963, the US <b>launched</b> a total of six Project Mercury astronauts, 
logging a cumulative 34 Earth orbits, and 51 hours <b>in space</b>. <b>First woman in</b> 
<b>space</b>[edit].
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova