Who is the first woman astronaut in the world?

Answer 1

Valentina VladimirovnaTereshkova, on June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok 6. She later achieved the rank of Major-General in the Soviet Air Force.

The idea of being first to put a woman in space was mainly for propaganda. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: Tatiana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yerkina, Valentina Ponomareva, and Tereshkova. Qualifications included that they be parachutists under 30 years of age, under 170 cm tall and under 70 kg in weight.

Even though there were plans for further female flights, none of the other four ever flew and it took 19 years until the second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, flew into space.

Answer 2

The first woman astronaut (Russian call it cosmonaut) in the world was the Russian Valentina VladimirovnaTereshkova, launched into space in June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman and first civilian to fly into space. Her call sign in this flight was Chayka. She orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space, which was more than the combined flights times of all American astronauts at the time.

Answer 3

Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space (1963) (USSR).

(Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born March 6, 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 on the 16th of June 1963.

She was born in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast. After school she worked in a textile factory, and then studied engineering. She also trained in parachuting at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. In 1961 she became secretary of the local Komsomol (Young Communist League) and later joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.)

(Twenty years ago Wednesday, and 20 years and two days after the Soviet Union sent the first woman into orbit, the United States caught up with Women's Lib.
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to make the trip into space, after answering a newspaper ad six years earlier. She was graduated from the astronaut program in 1978, one of five women in that class. )

you can see both woman on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/18/tech/main559280.shtml

Answer 4

Dr. Sally Ride first Woman Astronaut .

Answer 5

Astronaut (american) or cosmonaut (Russian) ?

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


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

Answer 6

Trick question

The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

The first woman astronaut was Sally Ride.

Answer 7

Valentina Tereschkova, Russian cosmonaut, born 1937, flight in June 1963.

Answer 8

I don't know about the world's first women astronaut,but i know the India's first woman astronaut is Mrs.KALPANA CHAWLA.

Answer 9

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

1963 - June - 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 Resnik, 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

Answer 10

It's Valentina Tereshkova of Russia.
Being an Indian think about Kalpana Chawla not a Russian.
OK my dear.