Today marks 49 years of
launch of the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, by her then-Soviet Union that
marked another first in space exploration program progressed much faster than
the U.S. space program. Terheskova, engineer and practitioner of skydiving was
one of five women selected in 1962 for the group of Soviet cosmonauts and the
only one who managed to fly a year later in the Vostok 6.
With 26 years of age,
was in the space of three days and orbited the Earth on 48 occasions. Tereshkova
retired astronaut and then a doctorate was removed and only where the invited
lectures. It would take 19 years for the Soviet Union sent another woman into
space.
