Answer: Valentina Tereshkova is a famous astronaut and living legend. She was born on 6 March 1937 in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky district, in central Russia. At first she was a textile worker in a factory. After the space flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in space. Yuri Gagarin was the first human being for space flight. Anyway, Soviet Union selected Tereshkova for that mission on 16 February 1962. She had to undergo a series of training. After the successful launch of a spacecraft, Tereshkova began to prepare for her own flight. On the due date, she completed her communication and life support checks, and then was sealed inside the spacecraft Vostok-6. It was launched faultlessly and Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times spending almost three days in space. In 1977, she earned a doctorate in Engineering from Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Once she turned to politics. During the Soviet era, she became one of the presidium members of the Supreme Soviet. Now she is a member in the lower house of the Russian legislature. On her 70th birthday, Vladimir Putin invited her and she expressed her desire to fly to Mars. She is now old, will die someday but will live for ever as a famous astronaut.
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