Valentina Tereškova made history on June 16, 1963, when she launched aboard Vostok 6 as the first woman in space. Her path to the stars began in 1955, when she was a passionate paratrooper and an admirer of Yuri Gagarin.…
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961, completing a 108-minute orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1.
