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From the Factory Floor to the Dark Cosmos: This Week’s Profile of Women in History

Posted on March 12, 2015

Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) of the USSR became the first woman in space when she was launched into orbit, alone, aboard Vostok 6, on 16 June, 1963. She was 26 years old. It would be …

Posted in Science, Women, World History
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