[…] In so doing, she followed in the footsteps of Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya, but whilst theirs had both been politically and ideologically motivated stunts, the “Ride of Sally Ride” on 18 June 1983 opened the floodgates for a further 53 U.S. women to achieve Earth orbit between August 1984 and October 2022, most recently the first Native American woman in space, Nicole Mann. […]
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