Tereshkova
Americannoun
noun
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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 • Apr. 17, 2025
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
June 16, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to fly into space.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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