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| | Valentina Tereshkova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировнаТерешко́ва; born March 6, 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space, aboard Vostok 6 in 1963. |
 | | Valentina Tereshkova was awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, numerous medals, and foreign orders. |
 | | Tereshkova was considered a particularly worthy candidate, thanks in part to her "proletarian" background, and also because her father had died as a war hero fighting the Nazis. |
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