Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space from June 16 to 19, 1963. She was launched into orbit aboard the &#34;Vostok 6&#34; and made 45 revolutions around the earth, operating her spacecraft with manual controls. She then parachuted from the &#34;Vostok 6&#34; after re-entering the earth&#39;s atmosphere, landing northeast of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. She is pictured here with cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Andrian Nikolayev, Valery Bykovsky, and Gherman Titov. SI-2006-635