television screen with Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova during her fifth orbit
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Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova:
On June 16, 1963, Valentina became the first woman in space and the first non-testpilot cosmonaut in the Vostok 6. She orbited the Earth 48 times in 71 hours. She landed back on Earth on June 19 and after that experience, she left the program.
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She handed out her space-rations to on-lookers at the landing site, it is claimed, in order to cover up the fact she did not eat enough during the flight.
