WHO THEY ARE...
40 women have flown in space since Valentina Tereshkova's first flight in 1963.
Who are they? Where are they from? What did they do?
Click on images below to find out.
(if you see a jumping moonwalker, the female astronaut's image is an active link)
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) |
1983 - Svetlana Savitskaya (USSR) |
1983-Sally Ride (United States) |
1984- Kathryn Sullivan (United States) |
1984- Anna Lee Fisher (United States) |
1984- Judith Resnik (United States) |
1985- Shannon Lucid (United States) |
1985- Mary Cleave (United States) |
 1985- Margaret Seddon (United States) |
1985-Bonnie Dunbar (United States) |
1989- Kathryn Thornton (United States) |
1989- Ellen Baker (United States) |
1990- Marsha Ivins (United States) |
1991- Linda Godwin (United States) |
1991- Tamara Jernigan (United States) |
1991- Helen Sharman (United Kingdom) |
1991- Millie Hughes-Fulford (United States) |
1992- Nancy Davis (United States) |
1992- Mae Jemison (United States) |
1992- Roberta Bondar (United States) |
1993- Ellen Ochoa (United States) |
1993- Janice Voss (United States) |
1993- Nancy Currie (United States) |
1994- Yelena Kondakova (Russia) |
1994- Chiaki Mukai (United States/Japan) |
1995- Eileen Collins (United States) |
1995- Mary Weber (United States) |
1995- Catherine Coleman (United States) |
1995- Wendy Lawrence (United States) |
1996- Claudie Andre-Deshays (France) |
1997- Kalpana Chawla (United States) |
1997- Susan Kilrain (United States) |
1998- Janet Kavandi (United States) |
1998- Katherine Hire (United States) |
1999- Julie Payette (Canada) |
2000- Pamela Melroy (United States) |
2002- Peggy Whitson (United States) |
2002- Sandra Magnus (United States) |
2003- Laurel Clark (United States) |
1986- Christa McAuliffe (United States) |
All images courtesy of www.astronautix.com except: Nancy Davis and Mary Cleave images: http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/ Anna Fisher, Susan Kilrain, and Chiaki Mukai images: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ Valentina Tereshkova image: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/tereshkova.html