Valentina Tereshkova Quotes


Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!


Citations

Tereshkova, Valentina. Quoted in Burgess, Colin, and Rex Hall. The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies. Springer Praxis Books, 2009, p. 238.

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Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
  • Born: March 6, 1937
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Astronaut

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut. She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.