Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to soar through space, flying solo on Vostok 6. As a Russian cosmonaut, this was her only in-space experience. She has gone on to pursue a career in politics.

MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman in space, holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union title, first-ever lady to have been awarded the rank of Major-General ...

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to soar through space, flying solo on Vostok 6. As a Russian cosmonaut, this was her only in-space experience. She has gone on to pursue a career in politics.

Hero of the Soviet Union and the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova told reporters at the opening of an exhibition in her honor at London's Science Museum on Wednesday. "Like a bird cannot ...

With Sunita Williams being stranded in space for nearly eight months, it's got many thinking about how female astronauts deal ...

In June 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space, but it would be 20 years before another woman would leave Earth. Astronaut Sally K. Ride became ...

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman cosmonaut in 1963 and two years later another cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the first person to perform a space walk. The American space programme ...

is accompanied by Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet ... [+] cosmonaut and the first woman in space. On April 8, 2008 Yi and fellow crew members Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko of Russia blasted off ...