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Women of Space Those That Have Flown in Space Tereshkova 2.95 days Engineer. First woman in space. Was married to cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev. Whitson 376.72 days Biochemist, first female space station commander, American record for cumulative days in space. Chawla 31.63 days Engineer. Perished in Columbia shuttle disintegration during re-entry. Clark 15.94 days Physician. Perished in Columbia shuttle disintegration during re-entry. McAuliffe 0.00 days Was to have been the first teacher in space. Died in Challenger accident. Resnik 6.04 days Engineer. Died in Challenger accident. Lucid 223.12 days Biochemist, first American woman to make a long-duration space station mission. Helms 210.96 days US Air Force flight test engineer. Williams 194.75 days US Navy test pilot. Kondakova 178.45 days Engineer, first Russian woman to fly in space for other than propaganda reasons. Was married to astronaut Valeriy Ryumin. Jernigan 63.06 days Astronomer. Was married to astronaut Jeff Wisoff. Ivins 55.91 days NASA flight engineer. Lawrence 51.16 days US Navy ocean engineer. Dunbar 50.35 days Engineer. Was married to astronaut Ronald Sega. Voss Janice 49.16 days Engineer. Currie 41.65 days US Army engineer. Ochoa 40.82 days Engineer. Thornton 40.64 days Physicist. Melroy 38.84 days US Air Force test pilot. Godwin 38.26 days Physicist. Was married to astronaut Steven Nagel. Collins Eileen 36.34 days US Air Force test pilot, first female shuttle pilot and first female spacecraft commander. Kavandi 33.84 days Chemist. Seddon 30.10 days Physician. Was married to astronaut Robert Lee (Hoot) Gibson. Baker 28.61 days Physician. Davis 28.09 days Engineer, was married to astronaut Mark Lee, part of first married couple to fly in space together. Wilson 27.87 days Engineer. Andre-Deshays 25.60 days Biologist, first French female astronaut. Was married to astronaut Jean-PIerre Haignere. Mukai 23.65 days Surgeon, first Japanese female astronaut. Sullivan 22.20 days Geologist, first American woman to walk in space. Coleman 20.86 days US Air Force engineer. Savitskaya 19.71 days Test pilot, engineer, second woman in space. First woman to walk in space. Kilrain 19.66 days US Navy test pilot. Weber 18.77 days Chemist. Hire 15.91 days US Navy aviator; first woman assigned to a combat aircrew. Ride 14.32 days Physicist, first American woman in space. Was married to astronaut Steven Alan Hawley. Nyberg 13.76 days Engineer. Higginbotham 12.86 days Engineer. Nowak 12.78 days US Navy test pilot. Caldwell 12.75 days Chemist. Morgan 12.75 days Teacher. Stefanyshyn-Piper 11.80 days Engineer. Cleave 10.92 days Engineer. Yi So-yeon 10.88 days First Korean in space. Ansari 10.88 days First female space tourist. First Iranian in space. Magnus 10.83 days Engineer. Payette 9.80 days Engineer. Second Canadian female astronaut. Hughes-Fulford 9.09 days Biochemist. Bondar 8.05 days Neurologist. First Canadian female astronaut. Fisher 7.99 days Physician. First mother in space. Was married to astronaut William Fisher. Jemison 7.94 days Physician. First African-American woman to fly in space. Sharman 7.88 days Chemist. First British astronaut. First non-American, non-Soviet female astronaut. Women that trained for spaceflight but never flew in space.... Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments. Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site.. To contact astronauts or cosmonauts. © Mark Wade, 1997 - 2008 except where otherwise noted.