astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became half a century ago the first woman to fly into space on board the ship “Vostok 6 ‘.
“Hey sky, take off your hat!”, Tereshkova said before taking off, as if asking the universe respect to the first woman who dared to challenge him.
“On June 16th 1963 the world learned that at 12:30 Moscow time entered Earth orbit the spacecraft” Vostok-6 ‘manned by the first female astronaut, “said a statement from the first Russian Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Numerous commemorative events dedicated to the iconic flight is celebrated today in different Russian cities particularly in Yaroslavl, where Tereshkova lived more than 20 years before becoming a legend.
Walk of Fame dedicated to Russian astronauts was inaugurated today in the city by the very pioneer of space and by the governor of the Yaroslavl region Sergey Yastrebov.
“I am delighted that so many people have gathered here to remember my first flight into space,” he said at a press conference Tereshkova.
Nikúlskoye town, near the birthplace of Tereshkova, was placed in the morning the first stone of what will be a cathedral, while Yaroslavl, has become a stage for performances of airplanes and paratroopers.
“Even I have dreams about that trip to space,” Tereshkova confessed during a press conference at the UN delegation in Vienna where many scientists and diplomats gathered to pay tribute, also personally congratulated Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Tereshkova became the country residence of the head of the Kremlin in Novo-Ogaryovo a Soviet limousine “Chaika” (Seagull, in Russian), the same model in which there was a walkabout half a century after starring in Mission send a woman into space.
Curiously, “Chaika” was the communication code Tereshkova during space flight that lasted nearly three days in which the ship took 49 turns around the Earth.
flight was not an easy ride sometime since Tereshkova began experiencing discomfort due to accumulated fatigue and could not guide the ship in the transverse axis, as recalled in his diaries Nikolai Kamanin, one of the organizers of flight.
However, the astronaut would not hesitate at any time to continue their mission in space, taking pictures for the Soviet scientists and filling the logbook.
According to the Russian newspaper ‘Komsomolskaya Pravda’ Tereshkova kept secret plan to fly in space to not scare your family, while he said he was going to participate in a championship paratroopers. The news of the flight came to the family through radio and television when the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the minute the fate of his hero.
remember that Tereshkova Russian newspapers, whose name headed numerous streets and whose face in the famous helmet with the letters USSR (CCCP, Russian) appears on postage stamps from various countries, was also the only woman in history to traveled into space without being accompanied by other astronauts. Recently, Tereshkova, 76, surprised his countrymen by expressing his desire to fly to Mars, even a one-way trip.
“(Mars) is my favorite planet. Chances are that the first flights to Mars are one-way, that is my opinion. I am ready, but unfortunately this will not happen soon” , Tereshkova said on 7 June. Tereshkova recalled that after becoming the June 16, 1963 the first woman to fly into space, worked with other scientists in the study of Mars. “Of course, this is a dream, to travel to Mars and see if there was life And if there was, why it’s no longer there? What disaster took place on that planet?” He asked.
turn, recognized that due to an accumulation of disasters and failures many Soviet women could not travel into space.
“The dream of (the father of the Soviet astronaútita) Sergey Korolyov was launch a female crew and begin instruction. But, unfortunately, he left. came another with other points of view “he said.
In 1994, three years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Yelena Kondakova became the first and so far only, Russian citizen in post-Soviet history in space, in particular , station MIR. According to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, next year will fly a new Russian astronaut, Yelena Serova.
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