Valentina+Vladimirovna+Tereshkova

Tereshkova was born in a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast in western Russia.She grew up in a poor family, andbegan school in 1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education. She was always interested in parachuting,It was her expertise in parachute jumping that led to her to become a astronaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, came up with the idea of putting a woman in space. On February 16 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female astronauts in traning for space. Out of more than four hundred applicants, only five women were chosen. ** Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was launched into space on **** June ** 16 1963, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space. With a single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that day. Today Tereshkova is known to the the very first woman to go into outer space.



After her flight, she studied at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy and graduated with distinction a as cosmonaut engineer in 1969. In 1977 she earned a doctorate in engineering. Due to her performance she was chosen for multiple political positions: from 1966 to 1974 she was a member of the Supreme Soviet, from 1974 to 1989 a member of the of the Supreme Soviet, and from 1969 to 1991 she was in the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1997 she was retired from the air force and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.

I chose Tereshkova because she is a very inspiring woman. She has accomplished so much in her life. Growing up in a poor family and with little education, Tereshkova strived to do her best. I found her very inspiring because she fulfilled her dreams even though at the time women weren't known for doing anything sagnifigant, she changed everything by being the very first woman in space. I still think that it is Tereshkova was an amazing women, and an amazing astronaut, personally i think that she made NASA very pround with her accomplishments.

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