This Cosmonaut Was the First Woman in Space
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On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, completing 48 solo Earth orbits in nearly three days — logging more flight time than all U.S. astronauts combined at that point. The U.S. wouldn't send a woman to space until Sally Ride's 1983 mission.
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