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Russia’s first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova turns 80
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 ...
Forbes1mon
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
pioneered a voyage into space ... [+] that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s ...
Scientific American21d
Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted
At that time, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were the only teams ... in 1963 the U.S.S.R. launched the first woman into space, but in subsequent years only five more female cosmonauts flew in ...
PBS7y
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet ... first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman ...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Black Women Who Fueled the NASA Space Race
T he Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate space exploration captured the world’s attention, but ...
PBS2y
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet ... first off. Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman ...