Valentina Tereshkova Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Template:Eastern Slavic nameValentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; IPA: [valʲenˈtʲina vlaˈdʲimʲirovna tʲerʲeʂˈkova] (13px ); born 6 March 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and engineer, and the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was only honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space.Before her recruitment as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile factory assembly worker and an amateur skydiver. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union and is still referred as a heroine in post-Soviet Russia.In 2013 she offered to go on a one-way trip to Mars if the opportunity arose. At the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics she was a flag-carrier of the Olympic flag.
Take off your hat, sky, I'm coming! [shouted as her spacecraft blasted off]
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She went on to an official career, holding various jobs and honorary titles. She holds a Parliament seat, serving as deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house.
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She told reporters in 2013 that engineers had made a mistake in designing the ship's controls, which would have left her stranded if she hadn't noticed it in time. "It was programmed to raise the orbit instead of landing. I put the new data in and it worked fine." An engineer had disclosed the glitch in 1993.
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Her call sign was "Chaika" (Seagull).
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Her ex-husband, Andrian Nikolayev, also a Russian astronaut, had a heart attack while judging the All Russian Rural Sports Games in Cheboksary, Russia on 6 July 2004. He was taken to a local hospital and died that same day. He was 74 years old.
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First woman to travel in space, 16 - 19 June 1963.
$11 Million