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RE: Vostok-6 Spaceship

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Val had a momentous day ahead and so, "like many women before a big occasion," the news agency United Press International reported, she went off "to the hairdresser."
On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova - UPI called her a "cosmonette" - climbed into Vostok 6 and, over the next three days, orbited Earth 48 times.
She was 26 and the first woman in space, said the "Handbook of Soviet Manned Space Flight, Vol. 48" (American Astronautical Society/1980).
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Vostok 6 (Russian: Orient 6 or East 6) was the first human spaceflight mission to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space. This also made her the first civilian in space. The spacecraft was launched on June 16, 1963.
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1963: Vostok 6 (USSR)

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World First Woman Cosmonaut Speaks About Error of Vostok Designers
Vostok-6 Spaceship was ascending instead of descending from the orbit because of some error in the control program, World First Woman Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova said when interviewed by Rossiiskaya Gazeta. By request of Soviet spaceship designer Sergey Korolev, Tereshkova had kept secret for dozens of years.
The spaceship almost flew “there” instead of the Earth because of the error, Tereshkova said, specifying she noticed the fault on the first day of the flight and reported it to Korolev. The mistake was promptly repaired – Tereshkova entered the data that she got from the Earth into the descending program and landed safely.

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