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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly in space onboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 6 on 16th June 1963.

She had no history as a test pilot unlike her male counterparts and was chosen as a cosmonaut to enable another Soviet space 'first' over their American rivals.
The first woman to fly in outer space was the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who piloted the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.
The first woman to fly in outer space was the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who piloted the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.

The first female American astronaut, and third woman in space, was Pooly Dammer who flew aboard the space shuttle Dawn

in June, 1983.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space on 16th June 1963


Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) was the first woman in space. She flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963. She is now a retired Soviet cosmonaut.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) was the first woman in space. She flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963. She is now a retired Soviet cosmonaut.
The first women in space was Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) who flew on Vostok 6 in 1963
Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, born 6 March 1937, was the first woman in space. She was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit, doing so when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched on 16 June 1963. She completed 49 orbits of the Earth in two days, 22 hours and fifty minutes. Even though there were plans for further flights for women, it was 19 years before the second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, flew into space.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go in space. She was Russian. Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space aboard the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963, becoming the first woman to visit outer space, she spent three days aloft before returning safely to Earth. The flight made Tereshkova a national hero ans she was awarded the high honor of the Order of Lenin. Her flight was considered a scientific coup for the Soviet Union, which also had the first man Yuri Gagarin and the first dog Laika in space. Before her flight Tereshkova had been an avid amateur skydiver, which led to her selection for the cosmonaut corps.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space, in the 1980's.
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