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那些挑战太空女宇航员们“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.” When Louisa May Alcott said these words, she likely had no idea that women one day would not only look beyond the sunshine, but travel beyond the stars to brave new frontiers in outer space. These are some top women who’ve made a significant contribution to space discovery. “远处的阳光里寄居着我最深切的祈望。我可能够不到它们，但我可以抬头仰望，凝视它们的美丽，相信它们，并跟随它们。”当路易莎·梅·奥尔科特(编注：美国著名女作家，《小妇人》的作者)说这些话的时候，她可能不会想到会有这么一天，女性的视野不但可以超越阳光，她们还可以在群星间遨游，探索外太空新的边界。下面介绍的是为探索太空做出过重要贡献的几位杰出女性。 Valentina Tereshkova 瓦莲京娜·捷列什科娃 First female in space 第一位进入太空的女性 The first woman to fly in space, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 6 in 1963. For three days, she kept a flight log (日志), took photographs and took manual (手动的) control of the craft. 逸闻趣事：瓦莲京娜·捷列什科娃并非飞行员，而是跳伞运动员，因为当时苏联的飞船返回地面时需要宇航员跳伞。而成为“太空第一女”也并非易事，捷列什科娃的训练由大名鼎鼎的世界“太空第一人”加加林负责。返回地面两个月后，捷列什科娃同航天员尼古拉耶夫结婚，组成了世界上第一个航天员家庭。 Svetlana Savitskaya 斯韦特兰娜·萨维茨卡娅 First female spacewalker 第一位女性太空行走者 Nineteen years after Tereshkova’s historic flight, Savitskaya flew into space along with four other crew members. In addition to being the second female astronaut, she was the first woman to walk in space. Part of her mission included a 3-hour and 35-minute space walk outside the Salyut 7 space station. 逸闻趣事：从中学时代起，斯韦特兰娜·萨维茨卡娅便开始瞒着父亲偷偷参加航空俱乐部的飞行和跳伞训练。16岁时，她已完成了450次跳伞，并创下3项世界跳伞纪录。到24岁的时候，她已拥有驾驶20种不同类型飞机的执照。1984年，斯韦特兰娜不但走出空间站，还完成了人类首次太空焊接作业。 Christa McAuliffe 克里斯塔·麦考莉芙 First teacher to space 第一位飞向太空的教师 An American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, McAuliffe was chosen from among 11,000 applicants to participate in NASA’s Teacher in Space project in 1986. The goal of the program was to have a non-professional astronaut teach from space, in order to inspire young people to learn about math, science and space exploration. Tragically, she died just 73 seco