Tereshkova
Americannoun
noun
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Blue Origin says the last all-female spaceflight was over 60 years ago when Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
The first and only previous space voyage by an “all-female crew” was completed by Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian cosmonaut, in 1963.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025
Perhaps not coincidentally, that’s the same year Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to venture into space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
After Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space in 1963, only four other Russian women have ever left Earth.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021
On May 21, 1963, it was announced that Valentina Tereshkova would be the first woman in space.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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