There was nothing in Valentina Tereshkova’s early life that indicated she would become a space pioneer. Born to a farming family in 1937 in the Yaroslavl region about 200 miles northeast of ...

MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman in space, holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union title, first-ever lady to have been awarded the rank of Major-General ...

ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the world’s first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Friday, on the anniversary of her historic space flight ...