Friday, April 20, 2007

Journal 113 – First woman to travel in space

Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman to travel in space. From June 16 to June 19, 1963, Tereshkova traveled around the Earth 45 times in the spacecraft Vostok 6. She orbited Earth one every 88 minutes. Tereshkova was the first space traveler with no experience as a test pilot. Her hobby was parachuting. She made more than 125 jumps before volunteering for space-flight training school. Valentina Tereshkowa, 69, was born in western Russia. Before she became a cosmonaut, she worked in a textile mill. In 1963, she married cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev.

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