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She also holds the record for the most spacewalk time by a female astronaut at 60 hours and 21 minutes over 10 spacewalks. She also jointly holds the world record for the longest single spacewalk at 8 hours and 56 minutes.

The duo did two more spacewalks in At consecutive days, Koch holds the record for the longest duration in space for a woman during a single mission. This mission is opening space travel to people who are not physically perfect.

Header image: Four women on the International Space Station pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. Image credit: NASA. In Anousheh embarked on an expedition to the International Space Station, becoming the first female private space explorer and first Muslim woman in space.

Home News Women making history in space. Diversity and inclusion Satellite. ITU News. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. To date, women make up just over 10 per cent of human space travellers.

More than astronauts. This trend continues today and into the further reaches of space. Laika the dog is pictured aboard Sputnik II on November 13, She was the first animal to orbit the Earth. She did not survive her trip, but the mission provided valuable data that paved the way for the first human in space. John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7, became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, He also set a record as the oldest astronaut in space when, at the age of 77, he went on a mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in Valentina Tereshkova, seen here with Yuri Gagarin, is the first woman to fly into space.

She piloted the Vostok 6 on June 16, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was the first human to die during a space mission. He died when the Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth on April 23, It was his second spaceflight. On July 20, , the Apollo 11 mission put the first humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong famously commemorated his first steps on the moon by saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Aldrin followed Armstrong and became the second man to walk on the moon. This is the first photograph of Earth's south polar ice cap. It was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 as the astronauts traveled to the moon in December Go Further.

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