Directly from the Soviet Archives. This is Valentina Tereshkova, minutes before being launched aboard Vostok-6 as the first woman in space, June 16 1963. The photo is a cover of the book "Propaganda: Photographs from Soviet Archives by Mark Holborn".
In 1963, Valentina married Andrian Nikolayev, another Russian cosmonaut. Their daughter, Elena Andrianovna, became an object of medical curiosity for being the first child born from parents that have both travelled into space.
Valentina Tereshkova won the International Women of the Year Association's "Woman of the Century" award in 2000.
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