Open any 20th Century history book and you will read that the first female ever to slip the surly bonds of Earth was a 26 year-old Russian woman by the name of Valentina Tereshkova. Young Tereshkova was launched into an orbital trajectory aboard the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, officially becoming the first woman to fly in space, but there are those who would suggest that this brave soul was not the first woman ever to make it into orbit… just the first one to make it home.
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