Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl Region of Russia on March 6, 1937. She became interested in the cosmonaut program, it was her and four other woman in it. Only she completed a space mission. Tereshkova was launched aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963 and became the first woman to fly in space. During the 70.8 hour flight, Vostok 6 made 48 orbits of Earth. Upon her mission Tereshkova was honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union. She never flew again, she became a spokesperson for the Soviet union. On November 3, 1963, Tereshkova married astronaut Andrian Nikolayev and than got divorced in 1980.
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