List of women astronauts

The following is a list of women who have traveled into space serving as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft, commonly referred to as astronauts or cosmonauts, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women to cross the Karman Line into space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration, and it would be almost twenty years before another flew (Svetlana Savitskaya).

By the end of the 1980s, women in space had become more common. By 2019, roughly 12% of all the space travelers were women. As of April 2025, 105 women had completed spaceflights and counting the astronauts that haven't completed any spaceflight there are 119.