1 / 1

Women Explore Space

Women Explore Space.

kaylee
Télécharger la présentation

Women Explore Space

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Women Explore Space 1963:  First woman in Space.  Vladimirovna Tereshkova,  a Russian cosmonaut, became the first woman in space.  She orbited the Earth 48 times in her space capsule the Sea Gull, in June 1963. 1960's:  NASA picks 13 female astronauts, called the Mercury 13, who passed the same tests as the all-male Mercury 7.  The Mercury 13 were never assigned to space flights. 1982: Second woman in space.  USSR cosmonaut Yevgenyevna Savitskaya flies to the Russian space station Sayut 7, in August, 1982. 1983: First American woman in space.  Dr. Sally Ride flies on the 7th Space Shuttle Mission on June 18, 1983. 1984: First woman to make a spacewalk.  USSR cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya walks in space. 1984: Second American woman in space.  Dr. Judith Resnick flew the shuttle Discovery in August, 1984.  1984: First American woman to take a spacewalk - Dr Kathryn Sullivan 1984: First women together in space - Kathryn Sullivan and Sally Ride flew together in the shuttle Challenger in October 1984.  1984: First mother in space - Dr. Anna Lee Tingle Fisher, M.D., flew in shuttle  Discovery in November 1984.  1986: First women to die in space flight.  Dr. Judith Resnick and Mrs. Christa McAuliffe die when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on lift-off,  January 28, 1986.  Mrs. McAuliffe was selected from 11,000 profesional educator applicants,   would have been the first teacher in space. 1992: First black woman in space - U.S. astronaut Dr Mae Jemison.  1995: First woman to pilot a space shuttle - U.S. astronaut Eileen  Collins.  1996: Space endurance record for women and overall U.S. space endurance record -    U.S. astronaut Dr Shannon  Lucid in six months aboard the Russian space  station Mir.  She was the first American to take a spacewalk at Mir.  1999: First woman space shuttle commander - U.S. astronaut Eileen Collins in the shuttle mission which launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 2001: First woman crew member of the International Space Station - U.S. astronaut Susan Jane Helms -- stayed 165 days in space.

More Related