FIRST ALL-WOMEN SPACEWALK

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• The first such mission was supposed to take place in March but was cancelled because the space agency had only one medium-sized suit, with a male-female combination performing the required task at a later date.
  
  
• The US sent its first female astronaut into space in 1983 and has now had more women astronauts than any other country.
  
  
• But the first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, followed by compatriot Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. Svetlana Savitskaya was also the first woman spacewalker two years later.