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July 23, 2012
17:34 • 11 months ago
Tags: Valentina Tereshkova sally ride astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya cosmonaut
While Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, she was not the first woman. She was the third. Russian Cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (above, who went up in 1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (who went up in 1982) predated her. Both are still with us.

While Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, she was not the first woman. She was the third. Russian Cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (above, who went up in 1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (who went up in 1982) predated her. Both are still with us.

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