Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space

[redqueen]

This cosmonaut was the first woman to fly in space, in 1963.

Before being recruited into the Soviet Union's Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was an amateur parachutist and textile factory worker. At 26, after extensive training, Tereshkova was launched into space on a solo mission aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft. She spent nearly three days in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times.

After Tereshkova's historic flight, it would be 19 years before another woman entered space, when fellow Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982.

[ismnotwasm]

1. Nice one!

20 years later, the USA finally sent a woman to space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

Better late than never

[reteachinwi]

2. RT

http://rt.com/news/first-female-space-flight-tereshkova-769/