Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman ... to have been awarded the rank of Major-General, holder of the Woman of the Century title and legislator is 80 today. A special exhibition ...

But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

A woman whose life story sounds like something out of a fairy tale or a legend. A woman who, centuries ago, accomplished something so extraordinary that it still leaves people in awe today. Her name ...