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Happy Women’s Day Ladies! A day to cherish all that beautiful work women had done from any sector in life even in outer space. Breaking records of course and breaking gravity to boot, female astronauts have made indispensable contributions in space science.
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space and Christina Koch who has spent the longest single time in orbit herself have opened up that door for future generations. And their bravery and persistence continue to motivate young girls all across the globe to dream big. Today we celebrate those trailblazers who have proven that there is no such thing as the sky’s limit by going outside the sky itself!
List of Top 10 Female Astronauts in the World:
| Name | Notable Achievement | Country |
| Valentina Tereshkova | First woman to travel to space (1963) | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Svetlana Savitskaya | First woman to perform a spacewalk (1984) | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Sally Ride | First American woman to travel to space (1983) | USA |
| Mae Jemison | First African-American woman to travel to space (1992) | USA |
| Sunita Williams | First woman to spend the longest cumulative time in space (322 days) | USA |
| Kalpana Chawla | First Indian-origin woman to travel to space (1997) | India/USA |
| Christina Koch | First woman to complete the longest single space mission (328 days) | USA |
| Eileen Collins | First female Space Shuttle commander (1999) | USA |
| Jessica Meir | Participant in the first all-female spacewalk (2019) | USA |
| Liu Yang | First Chinese woman to travel to space (2012) | China |
