Tereshkova

American  

[ter-uhsh-koh-vuh, tyi-ryi-shkaw-vuh] / ˌtɛr əʃˈkoʊ və, tyɪ ryɪˈʃkɔ və /

noun

1. Valentina Vladimirovna born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.

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Tereshkova British  

/ tɪrɪʃˈkɔvə /

noun

1. Valentina Vladimirovna (vəlɪnˈtinə vlaˈdimirəvnə). born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut; first woman in space (1963)

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Example Sentences

In 1963, he proudly watched Valentina Tereshkova become the first woman to fly to space—beating the Americans in this important achievement by twenty years.

From Literature

Tereshkova spent nearly three days up there, while Blue Origin’s six-woman party touched the darkness beyond the blue for about 11 minutes.

From Salon

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

Blue Origin said this is the first all-women space flight to take place since the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova's solo mission in 1963.

From BBC

Perhaps not coincidentally, that’s the same year Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to venture into space.

From Los Angeles Times