June 16, 1963. spaceflight took Valentina Tereshkova.

Valentina Tereshkova (March 6, 1937, the village of Big Maslennikov Tutaevsky district, Yaroslavl region, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet cosmonaut, the world's first female astronaut, Major General Aviation (1995). Hero of the Soviet Union (1963), Hero of Socialist Labor of Czechoslovakia (1963), Hero of Socialist Labor of Bulgaria (1963), Hero of Labor of Vietnam (1971), Hero of Labor of the MPR. Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor. Soviet cosmonaut number 6, 10th astronaut of the world.
The only woman in the world, made a space flight alone. The first Russian woman to the rank of Major General.



On the day of the first flight into space, she told relatives that he was going to competitions parachutists. On the flight they have learned from the news on the radio.



Colonel Nikolai Kamanin, engaged in the selection and training of astronauts, recalled: "Everyone who saw Tereshkova during the preparation of the launch and the withdrawal of the ship in orbit, who listened to her reports on the radio, unanimously declared that she spent the best start Popovich and Nikolayev. Yes, I am very happy that no mistake in choosing the first female cosmonaut ».



Tereshkova suffered quite difficult flight. However, despite the nausea and physical discomfort, she endured 48 revolutions around the Earth, and spent almost three days in space, where she was a logbook and made photographs of the horizon, which were later used to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere. After the second woman of Tereshkova flew into space only 19 years. She was Svetlana Savitskaya.