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On June 18, 1983, Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman to journey into space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7. She was the third woman globally to achieve this milestone, following two Soviet cosmonauts. Nearly a decade later, on January 22, 1992, Dr. Roberta Bondar made history as the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist to travel to orbit, serving as a payload specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-42 mission.
These pioneering flights marked the beginning of significant contributions by North American women to space exploration and scientific discovery. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle in 1995 and later the first to command a mission in 1999, deploying the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Kathryn Sullivan completed the first spacewalk by an American woman in 1984, paving the way for later achievements like the first all-female spacewalk by Christina Koch and Jessica Meir in 2019. Their missions have advanced research on the effects of microgravity, astrophysics, and the maintenance of orbital infrastructure.
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