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First female in space

First female in space
Who
Valentina Tereshkova
What
First
Where
United Kingdom (low Earth orbit)
When
16 June 1963

The first woman to orbit the Earth was Junior Lt Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (b. 6 March 1937, USSR). She was launched in Vostok 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 9:30 a.m. GMT on 16 June 1963. Vostok 6 landed at 8:20 a.m. on 19 June, after a flight of 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes and 48 orbits (1,971,000 km; 1,225,000 miles).

It passed momentarily to within 5 km (3 miles) of Vostok 5. Like Gagarin, Tereshkova ejected, after 2 days 22 hours 40 minutes and landed six minutes later.

Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in the Yaroslavl' region of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Yaroslavl' is now part of Russia.