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On June 16, 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. She spent 71 hours there. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born in Russia in 1937. When she was 18 she … working at a textile factory. At the age of 22 she … her first parachute jump in the local aviation club. She … keen on skydiving and she … by the people from the Soviet space program, who wanted to put a woman in space in the early 1960s. Tereshkova was skilled enough for that. In February 1962 she began intensive training … a cosmonaut.
In 1963 Tereshkova was selected to the second flight in the Vostok program and on the 16th of June Vostok 6 was launched into space. Tereshkova … the spacecraft, it was guided by an automatic control system. On June 19 Tereshkova successfully parachuted to the earth.
After her space flight Tereshkova received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards.
