![]() Peggy Whitson, for example, became the first woman to command a space station mission when she took the reins of Expedition 16 in 2007. But a number of female NASA astronauts have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station. The other two female cosmonauts were Svetlana Savitskaya, who flew on space missions in 19, and Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman to reach space.Īn American woman didn't get to orbit until Sally Ride flew on the STS-7 space shuttle mission in 1983. Serova, 38, is the first Russian woman to leave Earth since Elena Kodakova visited Russia's Mir space station on a space shuttle mission in 1997. "I think I feel the same thing as all other crewmembers: It's a huge responsibility we are excited," Serova said through a translator during a prelaunch press briefing from Baikonur. Serova is just the fourth Russian woman to fly in space, and she'll become the space station's first-ever female cosmonaut when the Soyuz arrives late Thursday night. (Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)Ī Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore and cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova launched into space from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday (Sept. Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova (top), NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore (center) and Soyuz commander Alexander Samokutyaev wave farewell as they prepare to board their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for an early morning launch to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Sept. ![]()
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