Women of Space

The first woman to fly in space, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in the Soviet craft, Vostok 6. For three days, she maintained a flight log, took photographs and manually oriented the spacecraft.
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Pioneer: Valentina Tereshkova
The first woman to fly in space, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in the Soviet craft Vostok 6 in 1963. For three days, she maintained a flight log, took photographs and manually oriented her spacecraft.

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