A Journey Into The Unknown: Women in Space
On April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin turned into the primary individual to go into space. Only two years after the fact another Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, turned into the principal lady to go into space. Anyway it would be right around two decades before another lady would emulate her example. In 1982, 19 years after Tereshkova's flight and 21 years after Gagarin's, Svetlana Savitskaya turned into the second lady in space. Over in The United States, their first space explorer, Alan Shepard, took flight only 23 days after Gagarin in May 1961, however it wouldn't be until 1983 that Sally Ride, America's first female space explorer, would make her journey. Starting at July 2016 just barely over 10% surprisingly (more than 500) who have made a trip to space have been ladies. So why this underlying demonstration of equality in the realm of room travel – with only 2 years between the main man and first lady in space – just for it to s...