Oct. 18, 2019: First all-female spacewalk, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch (NASA)
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Oct. 18, 2019: First all-female spacewalk, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch (NASA)
Oct. 10, 2007: First woman to command International Space Station, Peggy Whitson (NASA)
March 2001: First female crew member of International Space Station, Susan Helms (NASA)
Nov. 2, 2000: First crew on International Space Station, Bill Shepherd (NASA), and Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
July 23, 1999: First woman to command a space mission, Eileen Collins, shuttle Columbia
April 8, 1993: First Hispanic woman in space, Ellen Ochoa (NASA), shuttle Discovery
Sept. 12, 1992: First African American woman in space, Mae Jemison (NASA), shuttle Endeavor
Oct 11, 1984: First spacewalk by an American woman, Kathy Sullivan
July 25, 1984: First spacewalk by a woman: Svetlana Savitskaya (USSR), Salyut 7
Aug. 30, 1983: First African American person in space, Guion “Guy” Bluford (NASA), shuttle Challenger