Women in space! Here are the first female trailblazers

List of the pioneering women that made history in space. -- Women in space: A gallery of firsts: https://www.space.com/16143-women-space-firsts-gallery.html First woman in space: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova First American woman in space: Astronaut Sally Ride First female spacewalker: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya First U.S. female spacewalker: Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan First African American woman in space: Astronaut Mae Jemison First female space station commander: Astronaut Peggy Whitson First all-female spacewalk: Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JSC/Roscosmos | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)