1. Valentina Tereshkova (Валенти́на Терешко́вa)

2. Valentina Tereshkova
Born March 6, 1937, in Maslennikovo, Russia
Began school in 1945 at the age of eight
Left school 1953 and began working, but continued her education by correspondence course
By 1961 she had earned the certification of graduate cotton-spinning technology expert

3. Valentina Tereshkova
Early career
Valentina was interested in parachute jumping from an early age
Made her first jump at age 22 on 21 May, 1959
Set up the Textile Mill Workers Parachute Club and became its first director
Two years later became secretary of the local Komsomol (Young Communist League)

4. Cosmonaut career beginning
Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut career beginning
One of five women selected as cosmonaut candidates on February 16, 1962
All five underwent training that included weightless flights, parachute jumps, isolation tests, and centrifuge tests
Excelled in physical training

5. Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut career beginning
Reported difficulty with rocket theory and spacecraft engineering but later received a doctorate in engineering
Training included 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in jet fighters

6. Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut career
Female cosmonaut flights considered for mostly propaganda purposes
Korolev directed female cosmonaut selection
Khrushchev made final selection for first female flight

7. Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut career
Qualifications for first female cosmonaut class
Parachutists under 30 years of age
Under 170 cm tall
Under 70 kg in weight
Tereshkova had the advantage of her proletarian background, and support because her father had died as a war hero fighting the Nazis

8. Valentina Tereshkova Cosmonaut career
Five female cosmonauts were selected in the first class
Tatiana Kuznetsova
Valentina Ponomareva
Irina Solovyova
Valentina Tereshkova
Zhanna Yerkina

9. Completed three days in space
Valentina Tereshkova
First flight
Vostok 5 launched on June 14, 1963, with cosmonaut Valeri Bykovsky aboard
Valentina Tereshkova launched on Vostok 6 on June 16 to become the first woman in space
Planned rendezvous (coincident only)
Call sign Chayka (Seagull)
Completed three days in space
More than the flight time of all the Mercury astronauts put together

10. Valentina Tereshkova
First flight
Vostok 5 had been planned for a record eight days in space
Bykovsky had trouble with his thermal regulation system
Landed after only five days, just three hours after Vostok 6

11. Valentina Tereshkova First flight
Tereshkova maintained a flight log and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere

12. First female cosmonauts
Valentina Tereshkova
First female cosmonauts
Valentina and her fellow female cosmonauts were not truly integrated into the cosmonaut detachment
Were not considered for flight assignments on an equal basis with male cosmonauts
An all-female flight of three crewmembers was considered aboard a Voskhod spacecraft in 1965, but was cancelled because of:
Emphasis on Soyuz
Near-disastrous flight of Voskhod 2

13. First female cosmonauts
Valentina Tereshkova
First female cosmonauts
Svetlana Savitskaya became the second Russian woman in space in 1982 and 1984
An all-female Soyuz flight planned for Soyuz T-15 on International Women’s Day in 1985, was cancelled due to problems with the Salyut 7 space station

14. Valentina Tereshkova
Post-flight
After her flight in 1963 she received the Order of Lenin
Honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union
Received an honorary commission in the Soviet Air Force

15. Because of her flight she received United Nation Gold Medal of Peace
Valentina Tereshkova
Post-flight
Never flew in space again but became a spokeswoman for the Soviet Union
Because of her flight she received
United Nation Gold Medal of Peace
Simba International Women’s Movement Award
An additional Order of Lenin
Joliot-Curie Gold Medal

16. Valentina Tereshkova
Post-flight
A rumor began circulating that she would marry Andrian Nikolayev, the only bachelor cosmonaut to have flown
Andrian and Valentina did not dislike each other but there was little interest in marriage

17. Post-flight Valentina Tereshkova
The rumor of romance eventually reached Khrushchev who thought it was a great idea and began applying pressure through Kamanin, the commander of the cosmonaut detachment, for the couple to marry
Both conceded and the marriage ceremony took place on November 3, 1963, at the Moscow Wedding Palace

18. Later life Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina obtained a college level education at the Zhukovskiy Military Air Academy from 1964 to 1969
After her graduation, in October 1969, the female cosmonaut detachment was disbanded
In 1977 she received a doctorate of engineering

19. Valentina Tereshkova
Later life
Gave birth to their daughter Elena Andrianovna in 1964
Elena is now a doctor and was the first person to have both a mother and father who had traveled into space
She and Nikolayev divorced in 1982, though their marriage collapsed long before
Her second husband, Yuri Shaposhnikov died in 1999

20. Later life Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina became a prominent member of the Communist Party
Representative of the Soviet government to numerous international women’s organizations and events
Member of the World Peace Council in 1966
Member of the Yarsoslavl Supreme Soviet in 1967
Member of the council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet in and

21. Later life Valentina Tereshkova
Elected to the presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1974
Soviet representative to the UN Conference for the International Women’s Year in Mexico City in 1975
Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee

22. Valentina Tereshkova
Later life
Vice President of the International Woman’s Democratic Federation
President of the Soviet-Algerian Friendship Society

23. Valentina Tereshkova
Later life
Continues to be a Russian hero
Lives in Moscow and has occasional interviews

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