![W675-296 [tobacco : UK] W.D. & H.O. Wills - Embassy brand "World of Speed" (1981) 12/36](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-10/shuttle%20-pair.jpg?itok=Vfrba2uP)
The first two women into space were both Russian.
The third was the first American woman, and she went via the Space Shuttle. Her name was Sally Ride - check out Trading Card Database/Sally Ride.
The first woman commander on the Space Shuttle was Eileen Collins, on the STS-93 in July 1999 and the STS 114 in July 2005.
Pamela Melroy was the second commander on the STS-120 in October 2007 and she was immortalised by Panini in their Americana series in 2012
Here is the original New Issues Report from "Cartophilic Notes & News" Volume 9, No.105, November/December 1981 (page 3006), which enthuses, and rightly so, that this was the first set to be issued by W.D. & H.O. Wills for over forty years.
Other cards cited in this report were: Anonymous (Topps Gum) "The Empire Strikes Back" (cards numbered 67-88 : so the second series) - Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd "Small Wonders" - IPC Magazines Ltd (Shoot Periodical) "Top 20 Strikers", Prescott Pickup & Co. Ltd "The Royal Wedding" postcards, and "The Prince of Wales In Uniform" - Whitbread & Co. Ltd "Inn Sign Stickers" (a thin paper issue) - and two inserts by Benson & Hedges Ltd, one being a 4p off in red and yellow and the other offering a £1 bonus in return for collecting 15 Silk Cut coupons