On June 16, Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman to travel in space. Valentina Tereshkova made 48 orbits of Earth. She spent almost three days in space. Only 12 humans, all men, have ever walked on the Moon; all human Moon missions were part of the U. Apollo program between and No woman has ever walked on the Moon.
Female astronauts are tested regularly in the 10 days prior to launch. A year later, Valentina gave birth to her daughter Elena, who is now a medical doctor and who was the first person born of two cosmonauts who had gone into space. After the space mission, she studied at the Air Force Academy and graduated as a space engineer in Her enormous worldwide fame helped the Party designate her for various political positions, successively: member of the Supreme Soviet, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Valentina has continued politically active and continues to be considered a great hero in post-Soviet Russia. In she retired from the air force and the body of cosmonauts. At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, she was the bearer of the Olympic flag.
Tereshkova has taken advantage of her fame to favor citizens with disabilities; and she provides personal assistance in multiple orphanages. In , Tereshkova, 76 years old, surprised everyone when she publicly expressed her desire to travel to Mars, even if the trip was only one way.
Throughout the rest of her life, the USSR has granted her numerous honors for such a clamorous success, in times of great rivalry with the United States of America. Her great contribution to the development of manned space flights and her generous social activities has been recognized.
She has had an outstanding contribution to the development and strengthening of international scientific, cultural and social ties. The lunar crater Tereshkova bears this name in memory of this woman of extraordinary intelligence and courage. Salient Women Biographies of extraordinary women. You are reading Biography Valentina Tereshkova, Russian astronaut. Valentina Tereshkova, Gagarin and Kruschev in a celebration of the successful flight of the Russian spacecraft Vostok-5 and Vostok Valentina Tereshkova started to work and study She was 16 years old and had a great desire to learn; she managed to follow correspondence courses, in order to study engineering as soon as possible.
It was a great deal in favor of the Russians in the space race. The Soviet Union prepared women cosmonauts Enthused by a triumph that had humiliated the Americans, Sergey Korolyov, responsible for the USSR launches, had the idea of posing a new challenge in this hard-fought space race: that it was a Russian woman who made the next flight through space. Five women were selected. Valentina Tereshkova traveled to space in Afterwards, a program was developed that prepared two women to go to space, on two flights, on consecutive days, in March or April Single-person ship designed at that time for space flights.
This was the Vostok-6 manned by Valentina Tereshkova. Credit: Wikipedia In March , it was decided that the Vostok-5 spacecraft would go to space on June 14, with a male cosmonaut, Valery Bykovsky.
Image of the Vostok-6 spaceship by Valentina Tereshkova. Once all the checks were done, she was locked inside the ship. Her call sign on this flight was Chaika English: Seagull. It was not easy for Valentina to enter the small Vostok-6 capsule that would be launched into space.
Credit: RIA Novoski During much of the flights she experienced nausea and physical discomfort; In addition to a strong pain in the neck, because the helmet was very heavy.
Recovery of Valentina Tereshkova and Vostok-6 after landing in a field, where she was welcomed with great affection by the surrounding peasants.
Credit: web misistemasolar. Tereshkova graduated with distinction from the Zhukovsky Military Air Academy in She headed the Soviet Committee for Women from , was pictured on postage stamps, and had a crater on the moon named after her. In , Vladimir Putin invited Tereshkova to celebrate her 70th birthday.
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