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Feb 25, 2016 · Birth Year: 1937. Birth date: March 6, 1937. Birth Country: Russia. Gender: Female. Best Known For: In 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space aboard Vostok ...
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova[a][b] (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. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space ...
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. In space at the same time was Valery F. Bykovsky, who had been launched two days earlier in Vostok 5, and ...
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Jun 16, 2013 · First woman in space: Valentina. Valentina Tereshkova was born in Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl, in Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile factory. Interested in parachuting from a young age, Tereshkova began skydiving at a local flying club, making her first jump at the age of 22 in May 1959.
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 solo ...
Valentina Tereshkova attends the Artpoint Foundation gala screening of "The Legend About Valentina", a specially commissioned short film on the life... Russian cosmonaut Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev , and his wife Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, arriving in Paris, 10th May 1965.
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Nov 30, 2016 · Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova photographed inside the Vostok-6 spacecraft on June 16, 1963. Credit: Roscosmos Posted on November 29, 2016 February 23, 2021 by Matt Williams
