Kathryn D. Sullivan

Kathryn Sullivan in Challenger's payload bay, STS-41-G, October 11, 1984 The first American woman to walk in space checks the latch on the folded radar antenna in the cargo bay. Svetlana Savitskaya had become the first woman outside a spacecraft that July. Sullivan's 3-hour, 29-minute outing with David Leestma was short but busy: Leestma showed that a satellite could be refueled in orbit while Sullivan monitored the work.