This Day, That Year – June 16

This day in history we feature, Valentina Tereshkova. Soviet Cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on this day in 1963.

Trivia – Valentina Tereshkova

Tereshkova was chosen to take part in the second dual flight in the Vostok program, involving spacecrafts Vostok 5 and Vostok 6. Vostok 5 was launched into space with cosmonaut Valeri Bykovsky aboard her.

On what was her only trip, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6. Tereshkova later went on to tour the world to promote Soviet science and became involved in Soviet politics.

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Source – Britannica

This day in history – Valentina Tereshkova