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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. Tereshkova was accepted into the Soviet space program and began training in 1962. On June 16, 1963, she was launched into space in the spacecraft Vostok 6. She completed 48 orbits of Earth in 71 hours. She landed back on Earth on June 19. Tereshkova left the cosmonaut program shortly after her flight.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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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  6. 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.

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  8. Bio. Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6th, 1937, in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Russia. She was the first woman in space, flying on the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 at the age of 26. During the mission, she orbited Earth 48 times in three days. Tereshkova was a Russian pilot and politician who graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering ...

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