Valentina Tereshkova, the First Woman in Space
But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...
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Putin to meet with first woman in space following SPIEF — Kremlin
"This is a very important meeting; they have very warm relations. Putin respects Valentina Tereshkova immensely; [he] plans to speak with her tonight," Dmitry Peskov said ST. PETERSBURG ...
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Putin presents Order of Gagarin to world’s first female cosmonaut
ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the world’s first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Friday, on the anniversary of her historic space flight ...