Valentina Tereshkova: Legend of Space Aeronautics (+birthday)

On March 6, 1937, Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian engineer, politician and astronaut, was born, who became the first woman to reach space.

Raised by proletarian parents in the post-war USSR, Tereshkova went to school at the age of eight, then abandoned her academic training to work in a textile factory.

As a teenager, he became interested in skydiving, and he made his first jump at the age of 22. Two years later she became secretary of the Union of Young Communists and later became part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

At only 26 years old, on June 16, 1963, aboard the ship Vostok-6, he entered orbit. For 70 hours it circled the Earth 48 hours.

88 years after her birth, Tereshkova is a very important figure for Russia and for feminism, becoming a legend of space aeronautics.

Mazo News Team