Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to soar through space, flying solo on Vostok 6. As a Russian cosmonaut, this was her only in-space experience. She has gone on to pursue a career in politics.

I want to be an astronaut,'" Moghbeli recalled about her upbringing at Lenox Elementary School in Baldwin. Her book report about cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova lit the spark like the rocket she ...

MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman in space, holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union title, first-ever lady to have been awarded the rank of Major-General ...

TASS/. Russia has good prospects of launching more female cosmonauts into space, Hero of the Soviet Union and the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova told reporters at the opening of an ...

That's despite the fact that the first woman in space, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova ... of medium-sized spacesuits to fit one of the astronauts. For the last decade, Dr Varsha Jain ...

Imagine that you’re an astronaut preparing to go into space ... The third woman to fly in space overall (after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya), she earned her ...

could have gone into space before Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova made history. Wally hears from astronauts Jessica Meier, Helen Sharman, Eileen Collins and Samantha Cristoforetti; mission control ...