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Valentina Tereshkova: First woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, , when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission.
Tereshkova spent almost three days in space during her solo mission.
She remains the youngest woman to fly to space, the only female astronaut or cosmonaut to make a solo space journey, and the first civilian to journey to space.
Following her one and only space mission, Tereshkova has received a number of prestigious medals and has held many political positions, according to the Royal Museum of Greenwich.
She has also toured the world as an advocate for Soviet science.
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Early life and joining the Soviet Space Program
Valentina Tereshkova was born Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, on March 6, , according to Her father was a tractor driver, while her mother worked in a textile fact
