Valentina Tereshkova was born Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, on March 6, 1937, according to History.com.

Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago on June 16, 1963 launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6, set a record by becoming the first woman in space. She also wore the first (hidden) space ...

When Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to shoot into space in 1963, clumsy, sexist accounts of her feat ushered in the new Soviet era. Tereshkova, whose nom de space was Seagull, wore ...

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender ...

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the river village of Maslennikova in 1937. At the age of 2 her father was killed on the battlefield serving in the Russian army.

On June 16, 1963, Russia edged ahead in the Space Race with the United States when 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space.

In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova made history as the first woman to travel into space. But what makes Tereshkova’s achievement so remarkable is her journey from a working-class background to become ...

There was nothing in Valentina Tereshkova’s early life that indicated she would become a space pioneer. Born to a farming family in 1937 in the Yaroslavl region about 200 miles northeast of ...

The invasion of space by the lipstick-and-powder set in the plumpish form of one Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet "cosmonette" will hardly ease things on the home front for the average U.S. space ...