May 18, 1953 Jacqueline Cochran First woman to break the sound barrier.[75] June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova First woman in space.[76] 1963 Betty Miller First female pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.[77] 1964 Jerrie Mock First woman to fly solo around the world.[78] 1976 Emily Howell Warner First woman to become an American airline captain.[79][80] 1978 Judy Cameron First female pilot hired to fly for a major Canadian carrier (Air Canada).[81] 1984 Svetlana Savitskaya First woman to space walk.[82] February 1995 Eileen Collins First woman space shuttle pilot.[83] 2004 Irene Koki Mutungi, from Kenya First African woman to qualify to captain a commercial aircraft; she qualified to command the Boeing 737.[84] 2005 Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi First Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot.[85] September 18, 2006 Anousheh Ansari First female space tourist.[86] 2009 Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi Ghana's first female civilian pilot, and the first woman in West Africa certified to build and maintain Rotax engines.[87] 2014 Nicola Scaife, from Australia Winner of the first women's hot air balloon world championship, which was held in Poland.[88] 2015 Dalia Iraq's first female commercial airline pilot.[89] 2015 Ouma Laouali Niger's first female pilot.[90]