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Women Astronauts/ Cosmonauts and Space Pioneers

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    Posted: 18-May-2006 at 15:41
   Here's a choronology of our women in space!

1959 - Geraldine (Jerrie) Cobb passes tests for the Mercury astronaut training program

1963 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut from the USSR, becomes the first woman in space

1978 - Six women chosen as astronaut candidates by NASA: Rhea Seddon, Kathryn Sullivan, Judith Resnick, Sally Ride, Anna Fisher and Shannon Lucid

1983 - June -Sally Ride, American astronaut, becomes the first American woman in space

1984 - July - Svetlana Savitskaya, USSR cosmonaut, becomes first woman to walk in space

1984 - October - Kathryn Sullivan, American astronaut, becomes first American woman to walk in space

1984 - August - Anna Fisher becomes the first person to retrieve a malfunctioning satellite, using the orbiter remote manipulator arm

1992 - May - Kathy Thornton, the second woman to walk in space, holds record for longest space walk by a woman as of 2002

1992 - June/July - Bonnie Dunbar and Ellen Baker are among the first American crew to doc with the Russian space station

1992 - September -Mae Jemison becomes first African American woman in space

1993 - April -Ellen Ochoa becomes first Hispanic American woman in space

1994 - July - Chiaki Mukai becomes the first Japanese woman in space

1995 - February -Eileen Collins becomes first woman to pilot a space shuttle

1996 - September - 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 - May - 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

1998 - December - Nancy Currie completes the first task in assembling the International Space Station

1999 - July - Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle


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