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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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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937,...
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Feb 25, 2016 · Valentina began attending school when she was eight or 10 (accounts vary), and then started working in the textile mill in 1954. ... Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in 70.8 hours—just ...
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 Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937, in Maslennikovo, near the larger city of Yaroslavl, Russia. At the time Russia was part of the country known as the U.S.S.R, or Soviet Union. Her father was killed during World War II, so her early life was difficult. Tereshkova did not start school until she was 10 years old.
Valentina helped her mother at home and was not able to begin school until she was ten. Tereshkova later moved to her grandmother's home in nearby Yaroslavl, where she worked as an apprentice at a tire factory in 1954. In 1955 she joined her mother and sister as a loom operator at the cotton mill.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937, in Maslennikovo, Russia, U.S.S.R., near the larger city of Yaroslavl. Because her father was killed early in World War II, her early life was difficult. She did not begin schooling until age 10, and by age 17 she was an apprentice at the Yaroslavl tire factory.
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In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited Earth 48 times! Soviet Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl Region of Russia on March 6, 1937. She was the second born of three children. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Valentina began school in 1945 at the age of eight.
