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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. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space ...
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.
[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.
List of cosmonauts. The first eleven Soviet cosmonauts, July 1965. Back row, left to right: Leonov, Titov, Bykovsky, Yegorov, Popovich; front row: Komarov, Gagarin, Tereshkova, Nikolayev, Feoktistov, Belyayev. All were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, worn on the left breast and the Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR decoration, worn on the right.
Lost Cosmonauts. The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory, which alleges that Soviet and Russian space authorities have concealed the deaths of some cosmonauts in outer space. Proponents of the Lost Cosmonauts theory argue that the Soviet Union attempted to launch human spaceflights before Yuri Gagarin 's ...
She was awarded a Candidate of Technical Sciences degree in 1974. In 1972, she married fellow cosmonaut Yury Ponomaryov, and the couple had two children before divorcing. As with Valentina, Yuri did not get to fly into space, although he did serve on the Soyuz 18 backup crew. [4][5] Valentina Ponomaryova died on 8 November 2023, at the age of 90.
October 25, 2024 at 6:15 AM. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut were taken to a local medical facility "out of an abundance of caution" after splashing down in the ...
Tatyana Kuznetsova. Tatyana Kuznetsova in the 1970s. Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova (Russian: Татьяна Дмитриевна Кузнецова; 14 July 1941 – 28 August 2018) was a Soviet cosmonaut. [1][2] She was the youngest person ever selected by a government human spaceflight program. [3]