* Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova: The First Woman in Space

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Catherine Coleman and Valentina Tereshkova at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2010.

* 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

* 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut

* June 16 – Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.

* June 19 – Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space, returns to Earth.

* March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space

* 1963-The USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman ( and first civilian ) to orbit earth.

Smith also received a phone call from Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to orbit the Earth.

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born August 8, 1948 ) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.

Cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky among children

On 16 February 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps.

Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yorkina, Valentina Ponomaryova, and Tereshkova.

Cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Valentina Tereshkova on a Hungary | Hungarian stamp.

( from r. to l .) Nikita Khrushchev, Valentina Tereshkova, Pavel Popovich and Yury Gagarin at the Lenin Mausoleum, during a celebration honouring the Soviet cosmonauts, 1963

The wedding ceremony of pilot-cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Andrian Nikolaev, 3 November 1963.

Valentina Tereshkova later became a prominent member of the Soviet government and a well known representative abroad.

Valentina Tereshkova became the first and still remains to be the only female general officer in both Soviet and Russian armed forces.

Tereshkova's life and spaceflight were first examined ( in the west ) in the 1975 book: It Is I, Sea Gull ; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space by Mitchel R. Sharpe and then again in greater detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea by Colin Burgess and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleagues.

Valentina Tereshkova and Neil Armstrong, 1970

Valentina Tereshkova among delegates of the 24th Communist Party of the Soviet Union | CPSU congress, 1971

Valentina Tereshkova and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2010.

Various locations and monuments have been named after Valentina Tereshkova:

The couple had five children: Christopher ( born 1939 ), Christina ( born December 1, 1941 ), Catalina ( born November 21, 1942 ), Duncan ( born August 4, 1945 ), and Valentina ( born December 26, 1952 ).

Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D ' Antonguolla in Castellaneta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy.

* Gladstone Pereira della Valentina ( born 1985 ), Brazilian footballer

A son was born to Moreno in 1961 by another woman ; the child was adopted by Valentina Ivanova and was named Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova, causing some references to erroneously refer to him as " Cantinflas ' adopted son ".

Paul has two children with long-time girlfriend Alexandra Tonelli: Angelisa Valentina Rose ( born January 8, 2010 ) and Royce Paul ( born July 16, 2012 ).

Mother: Valentina Ivanovna Zaletina ( Prokhorova ), born in 1926.

Russian cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev, shot put athlete Svetlana Krivelyova, sculptor and architect Naum Gabo, and classical pianist Valentina Igoshina were born in Bryansk.

Onufriyenko and his wife, Valentina Mikhailovna Onufrienko, have two sons, Yuri, born in 1982 and Aleksandr, born in 1990 and one daughter, Elena, born in 1988.

Freni was born into a working-class family ; her mother and tenor Luciano Pavarotti's mother worked together and an aunt was the soprano Valentina Bartolomasi.

Valentina Cortese ( born 1 January 1923 ) is an Italian actress.

The couple have two daughters: Valentina Lima Jarić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Валентина Лима Јарић, born November 15, 2009 ) and Sienna ( born September 12, 2012 ).

Their first child, Jada Valentina, was born in September 2011.

Serov was born in St. Petersburg, son of the Russian composer Alexander Serov, and his wife Valentina Bergman, a composer of German-Jewish and English background.

They have two children: their daughter, Valentina, was born in 1999.

Valentina Cervi ( born 13 April 1976 ) is an Italian film and television actress.