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Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures

By Karen Bush Gibson
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When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance—cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982—followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. By breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow.

            Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the fi…

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