In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to journey to space orbiting Earth in the Vostok 6 space capsule. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Two years earlier, that bride, Valentina Tereshkova, had been a factory seamstress and amateur parachutist with more than 100 jumps to her name when she’d volunteered for the cosmonaut program.

Valentina Tereshkova: The first woman to enter space Image credit: Pixabay On June 16, 1963, Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, boarded a spacecraft named Vostok 6.

Out of over 600 people who have traveled to space, only 100 have been women. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to launch ...

On June 16, 1963, Russia edged ahead in the Space Race with the United States when 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space.

In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova made history as the first woman to travel into space. But what makes Tereshkova’s achievement so remarkable is her journey from a working-class background to become ...

More recently, Tereshkova has said she still itches for space travel. On her 70th birthday, in 2007, she volunteered to go on a one-way trip to Mars. “If I had money, I would enjoy flying to ...

On June 16, 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet ...

The invasion of space by the lipstick-and-powder set in the plumpish form of one Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet "cosmonette" will hardly ease things on the home front for the average U.S. space ...