These Women Are Space Exploration Heroes
Many women have been pioneers in the development of the space frontier, including Eilene Galloway, Valentina Tereshkova, Kalpana Chawla, Sunita Williams, Christina Koch, and the first female astronaut trainees. While Eilene Galloway stood behind the establishment of NASA, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go to space in 1963 from Russia. Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to fly on a space mission in 1997, followed by Sunita Williams, another of Indian descent who holds the record of more than 50 hours of spacewalk time for a woman. Christina Koch broke the records for longest single flight by a woman when she spent 328 days in International Space Station. Before any men went to space, it was the first female astronaut trainees in the early 1960s who paved the way for space flight by providing medical tests for space programs.
