A look at Valentina Tereshkova from the US publication "Man in Space" in 1974. We have edited and modernized the text. Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963. On June 14, 1963, at 3:00 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Lt. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky into orbit aboard Vostok 5. This flight was not unexpected by western observers, since the Nikolayev Popovich double Vostok flight of ten months previous had shown the Soviets were continuing to

Vostok 5 & Vostok 6 stamp, People's Republic of Bulgaria 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1657 On June 14, 1963, the USSR launched Vostok 5 with...

Valentina Tereshkova and Fidel Castro, Havana, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1561

Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...

Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...

Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...

Civil rights activist and US Communist Angela Davis with the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova and German Democratic Republic...

As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...

Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space) sign autographs and chat with young people at a youth forum, 1964 As we all...

Angela Davis with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, during a visit to the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #517