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Feb 25, 2016 · Who Was Valentina Tereshkova? As a young woman, Valentina Tereshkova worked in a textile mill and parachuted as a hobby. She was chosen to be trained as a cosmonaut in the USSR’s space program....
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
May 22, 2024 · Valentina Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937, Maslennikovo, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to travel into space. On June 16, 1963, she was launched in the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours.
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Mar 30, 2018 · Women @ NASA have made great strides in space since the pioneering flights of Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride. As of this writing, 60 women from nine countries have made 138 space flights, several of them making five trips into space.
Sep 14, 2023 · Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963, when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission. Tereshkova spent almost three days in space during her...
Jul 3, 2019 · The biography of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. The USSR sent Tereshkova into space many years before NASA sent astronaut Sally Ride.
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Jun 16, 2023 · The first female cosmonaut flew years before NASA put a man on the Moon and decades before any other country would send a woman into orbit.
