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25 July, 1984

Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk on 25th July 1984. The Soviet cosmonaut was aboard the Salyut 1 craft.

The first American woman to perform the space walk was Kathryn D. Sullivan, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger craft.