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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sweetie,
As was mentioned, perhaps earlier in this thread, nobody will doubt that your sister may have taken a pin/badge into space on a shuttle, but no woman has as yet landed on or orbited the moon.
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And in case anyone's forgotten, the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a cosmonaut of the former Soviet Union. She flew on
Vostok 6 in 1963.
The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-7 in 1983.
The first woman to walk in space was cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space on Space Shuttle mission 41-G in 1984.