Valentina Vladimorovna Tereshkova

From The Space Library

Revision as of 14:31, 21 November 2012 by RobertG (Talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

Valentina Vladimorovna Tereshkova; Engineer Colonel, Red Air Force; born March 6, 1937, Maslennikovo, Yaroslavl region; married (to cosmonaut Andriyan Grigor’yevich Nikolayev), two children. Later divorced. Graduated from a textile technical school. She was the pilot of Vostok 6 and was the first woman to fly in space.

Retrieved from "http://www.thespacelibrary.com/mediawiki/index.php/Valentina_Vladimorovna_Tereshkova"