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Valentina Tereshkova — Russian Astronaut born on March 06, ,

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian former cosmonaut. She is 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 In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space (wikipedia)

Valentina Tereshkova Biography

Valentina Tereshkova, who was part of Joseph Stalin's last generation, was brought up by her mother in Maslennikovo in central Russia, she never knew her father who died a war hero in WWII. There was a paramilitary flying club local to where she lived which she joined and from an early age learned how to parachute.

Tereshkova quickly became accomplished and was trained in day and night jumping onto land or the more challenging Volga River and she has nearly jumps to her name. She was brave too as she was once famously quoted as saying .

It was this bravery and experience that put her at the forefront of the selection process to be the first female cosmonaut in space. Valentina made the cut and was duly selected to pilot Vostok 6 on 16th June where in the process of making history she even made more earth orbits than all previous American astronauts combined.

Since her record breaking first space flight Tereshkova became a proverbial part of the Soviet establishment and then the uncrowned queen of Russia such is the esteem she is regarded in her motherland.

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