List of famous female astronauts

List of famous female astronauts indian

List of famous people.

List of women astronauts

→

Women who have traveled to space

"Spacewomen" redirects here. For other uses, see Spacewoman (disambiguation).

The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.

This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space.

List of famous female astronauts

List of famous female astronauts indian

List of famous people

Current female astronauts

First woman in space nasa

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in , very early in crewed space exploration, and it would be almost twenty years before another flew (Svetlana Savitskaya).

By the end of the s, women in space had become more common.

By , roughly 12% of all the space travelers were women. As of November ^[update], women had completed spaceflights.

History

As of May&#;^[update], of the total space travelers (FAI),^[1] 73 have been women.

There have been one each from France, Italy, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom; two each from Canada and Japan; three from China; six from the Soviet Union/Russia; and 56 fro