Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova(DOB March 6, 1937)a Soviet Cosmonaut is the 1st woman in Space.She becomes both the 1st woman and the 1st civilian to fly in space, as she was only honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force as a condition on joining the Cosmonaut Corps. During her 3-day mission aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.
Time in space 2days, 23hrs and 12mins.
After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with the idea of putting a woman in space. On Feb 16, 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps out of more than four hundred applicants.
Before being recruited as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist.
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