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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.
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Val is a Delta Zeta. Great girl!
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The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-7 in 1983.
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Sally is a Delta Zeta. That's why her space suit was pink and green with turtles on it.
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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.
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Both DZ's. Not sure, but I think Lana and Kate were in the same pledge class. I'll have to check on that.