First American Woman to Walk in Space Reaches Ocean’s Deepest Point

Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first woman to reach the lowest point on Earth.
First American Woman to Walk in Space Reaches Ocean’s Deepest Point
Kathy Sullivan and Victor Vescovo after their dive to Challenger Deep on June 8, 2020. Enrique Alvarez/EYOS
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Former NASA astronaut and oceanographer Kathy Sullivan, who was the first American woman to walk in space, reached another milestone on June 7 by becoming the first woman to reach the lowest point on Earth.

Sullivan, 68, reached the deepest known spot in the ocean—known as the “Challenger Deep”—inside the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, after completing a 35,810-foot dive on June 7, according to EYOS Expeditions, which coordinated the mission’s logistics.
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