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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova [a] [b] (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut.She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities. As of 2024, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.
The time between the first male and first female astronauts varied widely by country. The first astronauts originally from Britain, South Korea, and Iran were women, while there was a two-year gap in Russia from the first man in space on Vostok 1 to the first woman in space on Vostok 6.
The head of Russia's space agency said Monday that the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon after its engines failed to shut down correctly, and he blamed the country's decades-long pause in ...
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Russian journalist Yaroslav Golovanov suggested that high-altitude testing was exaggerated into a story that those parachutists died on a space flight. [4] In late 1959, Ogoniok carried pictures of a man identified as Gennady Zavadovsky testing high-altitude equipment (perhaps with Grachov and others).
The lunar lander that crashed into the moon misfired while attempting to adjust its orbit, Yury Borisov, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, told state media.
A Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33 / 32 Vladimir Aksyonov (1935–2024) — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2 Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3 Ivan Anikeyev (1933–1992) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights. Oleg Artemyev * — Soyuz TMA-12M, Soyuz MS-08, Soyuz MS-21 Anatoly Artsebarsky * — Soyuz TM-12 Yuri Artyukhin ...