37K views · 666 reactions | #OnThisDay 1963: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space. Fourteen years later, she talked to the BBC about her experience as a cosmonaut. | BBC Archive | Facebook

Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first female cosmonaut, made a space flight on June 16, 1963 | Soviet Visuals

An all-female space flight launched on Monday from West Texas, making history as the first all-female space crew since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963. The six women took a 10-minute flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. It was the 11th human space flight for Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The all-female crew included Lauren Sánchez, Bezos’ fiancée; pop star Katy Perry; TV journalist Gayle King; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scient

42K views · 4.2K reactions | Check out rare archive footage of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becoming the first woman in space on June 16, 1963 - exactly 60 years ago! Video courtesy: РГАКФД Photo credit — Sputnik | Future Russia | Facebook