FACT FILES // 1 OF 5

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First British Astronaut in space.• First woman to visit the

Mir space station.

30 May 196318 May 1991One7 days 21 hrs 13 minsBritish

Helen Sharman ValentinaTereshkova

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First woman in space.• Youngest woman in space (aged 26).• Only woman to make a solo spaceflight.

06 March 193716 June 1963One2 days 22 hrs 50 minsUSSR

FACT FILES // 2 OF 5

SvetlanaSavitskaya

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First woman to fly on a space station• First woman to perform a spacewalk• First woman to make two spaceflights.

08 August 194819 August 1982Two19 days 17 hrs 06 minsUSSR

Sally Ride

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First American woman in space.

26 May 1951June 18, 1983Two14 days 07 hrs 46 minsAmerican

Liu Yang

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First Chinese woman in space.

06 October 197816 June 2012One13 daysChinese

Liu Yang

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First Chinese woman in space.

06 October 197816 June 2012One13 daysChinese

FACT FILES // 3 OF 5

SamanthaCristoforetti

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First Italian woman in space and on ISS.• Longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a

female European astronaut.

26 April 197723 November 2014One199 days 16 hrs 42 mins Italian