Valentina Tereshkova

Posted by VINAY VS on Jan. 14, 2013, 8:04 p.m.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.Wikipedia

Born: March 6, 1937 (age 75), Bolshoye Maslennikovo

Space missions: Vostok 6

First space flight: Vostok 6

Children: Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova

Spouse: Andrian Nikolayev (m. 1963–1982), Yuli Shaposhnikov

Parents: Elena Fyodorovna Tereshkova, Vladimir Tereshkov

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