The brand name " Chaika " was in honor of the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, as that was her call sign.
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The Soviet Union had launched the first civilian, Valentina Tereshkova ( also the first woman ), aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.
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Armstrong was the first American civilian in space, but the first civilian was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union, nearly three years earlier.
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A man shot eight times at the motorcade but aimed at the car containing Georgi Beregovoi, Alexei Leonov, Andrian Nikolayev, and Valentina Tereshkova.
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The mission was launched on 16 June 2012, 49 years to the day after the first female space traveller, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched.
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Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
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This fictional milestone was eclipsed by reality soon after publication, when Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on Vostok 6 in June 1963.
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Manned spaceflights launched from the site include Yuri Gagarin's flight, Valentina Tereshkova's flight, and numerous other human spaceflight missions, including all Cosmos satellites and others.
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4 different female cosmonauts have flown on the Soviet / Russian program : Valentina Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya, Elena V . Kondakova, and Elena O . Serova
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However, in April 2011, after two years of construction, the city's new'Valentina Tereshkova'planetarium ( named after the first female cosmonaut ) was opened to the public.
