On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...

But that came a full 20 years after Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's pioneering voyage. Aboard Vostok 6, her rendezvous with Vostok 5 cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky made them the first cosmonauts ...

Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut with humble beginnings and a background in parachuting, became the first woman in space in 1963 aboard Vostok 6, completing a three-day mission. Tereshkova's ...

I will give you some tips: There are two, and one of them is for the ladies. The one on the left is the first prototype of a toilet for female cosmonauts. It was flown for the first time in the Vostok ...

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Tereshkova, a cosmonaut with then-Soviet Russia, launched into space on the Vostok 6 mission and orbited ...

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender wasn ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

Valentina Tereshkova as seen by flight controllers during her Vostok-6 flight. Mission controllers could downlink live TV pictures of the cosmonaut in orbit. NASM Space buffs around the world got a ...