Valentina Tereshkova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut, first woman to have flown in space

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Russia

Profession: astronaut, military personnel, engineer, politician, aircraft pilot

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Valentina Tereshkova

  • Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: ????????? ???????????? ?????????, IPA: [v?l??n?'t?in? vl?'d?im??r?vn? t??r???'kov?] (listen); born 6 March 1937) is a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut.
  • She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
  • She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission. Before her selection for the Soviet space program, Tereshkova was a textile factory worker and an amateur skydiver.
  • She joined the Air Force as part of the Cosmonaut Corps and was commissioned as an officer after completing her training.
  • After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, Tereshkova remained in the space program as a cosmonaut instructor.
  • She later graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and re-qualified for spaceflight but never went to space again.
  • She retired from the Air Force in 1997 having attained the rank of major general. Tereshkova was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices including being a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1974 to 1989.
  • She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union but twice lost elections to the national State Duma in 1995 and 2003.
  • Tereshkova was later elected in 2008 to her regional parliament, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma.
  • In 2011, she was elected to the national State Duma as a member of the United Russia party and re-elected in 2016.

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