The honor of being the first woman in space was eventually given to Valentina Tereshkova, who was launched into Earth orbit in June 1963 aboard Vostok 6.
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Her flight set the women's altitude record, and held it for 29 years, until Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 became the first woman in Robert Millikan's ionization chamber.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space; and Alexei Leonov, first spacewalker and commander of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking mission.
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Walker was the first American civilian to make any spaceflight, and the second civilian overall, preceded only by the Soviet Union's cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova one month earlier.
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The honor of being the first woman in space was eventually given to Valentina Tereshkova who was launched into Earth orbit in June 1963 aboard Vostok 6.
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Thus, the flight preparation of Valery Bykovsky and Valentina Tereshkova ( approved to fly 21 May ) was hurried by " use it or lose it " deadline.
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The Yaroslavl Air Club, which is one of Russia's oldest air clubs and where Valentina Tereshkova first began to attend flight training, is based at the Karachikha air field.
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Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian factory worker, was the first woman in space, as well as the first civilian among the Soviet cosmonaut or NASA astronaut corps to make a spaceflight.
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Gagarin was followed by additional Vostok flights, culminating with 81 orbits completed by Vostok 5 and the launch of Valentina Tereshkova as the first woman cosmonaut in space aboard Vostok 6.
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While in orbit, Wang Yaping was one of only two women in space on 16 June 2013, the 50th anniversary of Vostok 6, the first space flight by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova.
