Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go in to space. She was 26 years old when we went in the spaceship Vostok 6 capsule. Her launch was June 16, 1963.
1963: First woman in space, first woman in orbit - USSR cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova [also Valentina Tereshkova] was not only the first woman in orbit, but also the first ordinary person in space. She was a textile mill worker who enjoyed the hobby of parachute jumping when she was picked for a class of women to train for spaceflight. USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev wanted a spectacular, so, by age 25, Tereshkova was a cosmonaut. She spent 71 hours orbiting Earth 48 times in June 1963 in her capsule Sea Gull. Following Yuri Gagarin as the first man in space in 1961, Tereshkova's 1963 flight brought additional prestige to the Soviet Union and what then appeared to be the dominant space program.
Sally Ride (b. May 26, 1951) She was on the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger for the STS-7, which began on June 18, 1983. She was the third woman in space, after the cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
YURI GAGRIN WAS THE FIRST MAN and Valentina was the first women to go in space
The first American satellite (space ship) was Explorer I, launched in 1958.
It was called Frenship 7
Valentina Tereshkova.
Valentina Tereshkova went into space June 16th , 1963.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first women in space. She was part of the Soviet Space Program
Valentina Tereshkova goes by Valya.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova on the 16th of June, 1963.
Valentina Tereshkova, born March 6, 1937, was the first woman to go into space. As a Soviet cosmonaut, she orbited the Earth in her Vostok 6 space capsule from June 16 to June 18, 1963.
She piloted Vostock 6 on 16th June 1963
So far (July 2012) there are over 50 female astronauts. The first was Valentina Tereshkova of Russia, in 1963.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was a Russian astronaut, and the first woman to go into space on June 16, 1963, when she piloted the Vostok 6.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She spent three days in space in June 1963
Valentina Tereshkova went to outer space to become the first woman to do so. It is also stated that before she went to outer space she spent every free minute skydiving and became a regional champion.
No she wasn't. The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union, who flew aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.