Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 1963.
1Flight
2d 22hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Bolshoye Maslennikovo
- Education
- Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
- Awards
- Order of Gagarin; Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class; Order of Alexander Nevsky; Order of Friendship; Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class; and 54 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Vostok-K | Vostok 6June 16, 1963
Born 1937-03-06 · age 89