Timeline of women in space. 1963: Russian engineer and cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. She orbited the Earth 48 times on her 71-hour trek.

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. She spends more time in space than all of the astronauts of NASA's Mercury program combined. During nearly 71 hours aboard ...

Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago on June 16, 1963 launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6, set a record by becoming the first woman in space. She also wore the first (hidden) space ...

Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became a national heroine at the age of 26 when she made a solo space flight from the Soviet Union. She has been part of a research group studying the possibility ...

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Blue Origin successfully launched six women over the Kármán line on Monday morning, marking the first all-female spaceflight since Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova flew into space on a ...

The mission is set to feature the first all-women space crew since Valentina Tereshkova's solo spaceflight in 1963. Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez will join three other women on an all ...

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, and remains the only woman to have conducted a solo flight The first woman in space has revealed that the Soviet authorities thought it was "too ...

Valentina Tereshkova told BBC News that she protested, writing a letter to the central communist party committee. It took the authorities 19 years to send another woman into space.