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The first female astronaut to fly into space and the suffocating journey almost never returned to Earth
Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made her name in history when she flew into space in 1963.
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The first female astronaut wanted to go to Mars at the age of 76
The first woman to fly into space said she would fly to Mars if she had a chance, even if that meant she would never return to Earth.
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The first woman to fly into space forgot the toothbrush
Dr. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly into space, realized she did not have a toothbrush when the spacecraft flew into orbit in 1963.
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Revealing the first Russian beauties to conquer the universe
In the past 50 years, three Russian women flew into space: Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, 19 years later - Svetlana Savitskaya, and after 12 years Elena Kondakova. Their…