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VALENTINA TERESHKOVA BIOGRAPHY

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From an early age she practiced

is a Russian cosmonaut
and politician and retired

the sport of parachute jumping,

engineer. She became the and even obtained the title of

first woman to go into instructor in this specialty.

space having been
selected from over four
hundred applicants and
five finalists to pilot
Vostok 6, launched on
June 16, 1963.
Attracted by space research,
she did not hesitate to volunteer
as a future astronaut, and
although she lacked the proper
training, the Soviet space
agency decided to train her,

along with three other women.

TRAVEL TO SPACE APPLIED STUDIES

After the space mission he studied space
engineering, graduating in 1969 and obtaining a
He completed 48 orbits around the Earth in his three days in
outer space. In 2013, he offered to travel to Mars if given the
chance. She has been the only woman to have traveled alone
into space.
World Conference on the occasion of
DEDICATION AFTER TRAVELING TO SPACE
doctorate in engineering in 1977. He later
became interested in politics and, due to his
prominence, held various political positions in
the Soviet Union. She participated in the UN
International Women's Year, held in Mexico in
1975, and in 1982 she received the Simba
award for her work promoting women.

After the dissolution of the first

CONCLUSION
group of female cosmonauts in

1969, she was a prominent member Valentina is still

of the Communist Party of the Soviet
considered a hero in post-
Union, holding various political
Soviet Russia and for her
offices. She remained active in
politics after the collapse of the
intelligence and courage,
Soviet Union (USSR) and is regarded an example for many
as a hero in post-Soviet Russia. He women and girls in the
maintains a good relationship with world to follow.

the President of Russia, Vladimir

Putin.