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Bookmark or Share- Valentina Tereshkova - Facts, Age & Family - Biography(1937-) 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...
- Valentina Tereshkova: First woman in space | SpaceValentina 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...
- Valentina Tereshkova - WikipediaValentina 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.
- Sally Ride and Valentina Tereshkova: Changing the Course of ... - NASASoviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is seen before she launched on the Vostok 6 mission in 1963. Roscosmos. One of six women selected in NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, Sally Ride was the first of them to fly.
- Valentina Tereshkova | Biography, Vostok 6, & Facts | BritannicaValentina 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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