50 years ago, Tereshkova became the first woman in space

June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union became the first woman to fly in space.
Two years after Yuri Gagarin's historic first manned flight, Tereshkova 26 years old to become a national heroine, a criticism in ship Vostok -6.
He made a solo space flight only woman ever to have lived.
In April 1962, officials narrowed down to five candidates for the flight. In a top-secret process, two engineers, a school teacher, a typist and 90 parachute jumps performed a factory worker who raised: was this Tereshkova.

Seven months after the training, she grew up in a peasant family from Moscow and 280 kilometers (174 miles) around the historic city of Yaroslavl textile factory in the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) who was leader Tereshkova, select have.
Tereshkova Moscow announced to the world that he only learned of the exploitation of members of the family, I was not allowed to spy.

Valentina Tereshkova 7 June, 2013 in Star City outside Moscow, speaks during a press conference. June 16, 1963, Tereshkova Soviet Union was a major propaganda coup in a scientific achievements became the first woman to fly in space.

They criticize the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, another Soviet ship, Vostok 5, piloted by cosmonaut VALERY Bykovsky already been in orbit for two days.
During the three-day mission, Tereshkova Earth 48 times circled. On the first day, he advised with Bykovsky and even the songs sung. Two spaceships moved away from one another as their communication was interrupted again.
Flight only after the fall of the Soviet Union in which the public were encountered several glitches.
"A problem appeared on the first day of flight," Tereshkova earlier this month Star City cosmonaut training center for a house said in a press conference.
"Due to a technical error, but a higher orbit for landing aboard the ship was to take the program," he ground the aircraft has grown more and more that means.
Correct the error, but do not tell anyone Tereshkova chief producer Sergei Korolyov said.
"I kept secret for 30 years," he said.

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova 16 June, 1963, Baikonur cosmodrome aboard the Vostok -6 poses for a photo before. She became the first woman to fly in space.

She is vomiting during the flight.
It's also the first woman in space in order not to spoil the triumph was kept under wraps.
Tereshkova's Landing in Mission Control also prompted concerns.
As was the standard procedure - Tereshkova catapulted out of the space capsule landing in the Altai in southern Siberia parachuted.
He landed two hours after Tereshkova's space mission control but did not know the aircraft producer Boris Chertok admitted in his memoirs.
Relief finally found tens of kilometers away from the expected.
Tereshkova during landing her nose against his helmet visor broke and in public events with makeup to hide scratches said in the interview.

Soviet cosmonaut, first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, and a space walk, Alexei Leonov, the first man to make, 7 June, 2013 to Yuri Gagarin, Star City outside Moscow, the first man in space, to walk past a monument.

After this success, the second woman to go into space in 1982, the Soviet Union, Svetlana Savitskaya than that. In 1983, the first American woman, Sally second, followed.
Since then, America has gone more than 40 women into space, but in 1994 and 1997, only one other Russian, Yelena Kondakova,. Is

"It was probably because of chauvinism New," Dobrokvashina, astronaut now working with the staff at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, told AFP.
"We were training in Star City, space industry leaders are divided: while others can not bear the thought of something, all women support the project."
Another cosmonaut - will Yelena Serova, 36, International Space Station next year for a six-month training mission.
Speaking to AFP, he Tereshkova "a bold personality, Century Woman" is called.

Like Gagarin, Tereshkova was a space flight.
Several months later, a cosmonaut, Andriyan Nikolayev married. Their marriage "probably useful for politics and science" was written general Kamanin.
In 1964, she gave birth to a daughter, Yelena. The couple later divorced and remarried Tereshkova.
During the Soviet occupation of various honorific character after the ruling United Russia party for 76 in the Tereshkova is a lawmaker.
But brave soul: she was traveling one way to fly to Mars, even if the "smart" that this month is going to be.