The First Mother in Space, Anna Lee Fisher (NASA STS-51A, November 8, 1984) (PHOTO)
As the FIRST women in space, in 1963: Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut – USSR, became the first woman in space; US didn’t send a woman till Sallie Ride in 1983.
Anna Lee Fisher more recently (2009): http://magazine.ucla.edu/features/bruins_in_space/index2
