The first woman-cosmonaut of land Valentina Tereshkova celebrates her anniversary
The first woman-cosmonaut of the world, State Duma deputy Valentina Tereshkova today, March 6, notes the 75th anniversary. On June 16, 1963, she made her historical flight into space as the only crew member - the commander of the Vostok -6 spacecraft. At the same time, with Tereshkova in orbit was the Vostok-5 ship, piloted by the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky. Its space call sign, "Seagull", flew around the planet 48 times, and the total flight duration was 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes.