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#FirstsInSpace, episode 3 – First woman in space. Both first man and first woman to travel to outer space were Soviet citizens – Yuri #Gagarin & Valentina #Tereshkova. In this episode we will speak of Valentina Tereshkova’s journey to the stars

➡️https://is.gd/EotSSC

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#ПервыеВКосмосе, часть 3 – Первая женщина-космонавт. Первым мужчиной и первой женщиной, отправившимися в космос, были граждане СССР - Юрий Гагарин и Валентина Терешкова. В этой части мы расскажем о путешествии Валентины Терешковой к звездам

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📆#OTD in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of USSR became the world’s first and youngest woman to travel into outer space with a solo mission.

🧑‍🚀The decision to select women for female cosmonauts group was taken in 1961. Having passed a number of rigid tests, V.Tereshkova was enrolled in the group. She embarked on her space flight onboard the Vostok-6 spacecraft. Her call sign in this flight was “Tchaika” (Russian for “seagull”).

She orbited the Earth 48 times and spent 2 days, 22 hours, and 50 mins in space. Her mission was used to continue the medical studies on humans in spaceflight and offered comparative data of the effects of space travel on women.

The next woman’s spaceflight took place only 19 years later with the second female cosmonaut also being Soviet citizen Svetlana Savitskaya.

#spaceexploration #USSR #Soviet #Russia #firstinspace #Tereshkova #firstwomaninspace