| 41. | The mission's launch was 49 years to the day after that of the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
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| 42. | The couple divorced in 1982, and Tereshkova went on to become a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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| 43. | Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.
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| 44. | He died in the Finnish Winter War during World War II in the Lemetti area in Finnish Karelia when Tereshkova was two years old.
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| 45. | Vostok 5 would now carry a male, cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, flying the joint mission with Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963.
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| 46. | The world's first female spacecraft pilot was Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth for three days in June 1963.
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| 47. | "But you'd be interested to know that your friend Valentina Tereshkova thinks we are not dinosaurs, but pterodactyls ."
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| 48. | 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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| 49. | 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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| 50. | None of the other four in Tereshkova's early group flew, and, in October 1969, the pioneering female cosmonaut group was dissolved.
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