Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman in Space

The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosedocumentary.com Teachers, check out our entire film catalog organized by curriculum and category here: bit.ly/dailydosedocumentary We strive for accuracy and unbiased fairness, but if you spot something that doesn’t look right please submit a correction suggestion here: https://forms.gle/UtRUTvgMK3HZsyDJA Learn more: https://dailydosedocumentary.com/vale... Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ Become a Patron:   / dailydosenow   Follow us on social media: Twitter:   / thedailydose18   Facebook:   / thedailydosenow   Click to subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyDoseDo... #documentary #history #biography Today's Daily Dose short history film covers Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding: Today on The Daily Dose, Valentina Tereshkova, The First Woman in Space. After cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961, director of cosmonaut training Nikolai Kamanin read in an American media source that female pilots in the U.S. were training to become astronauts. As a result, Kamanin gained approval for an all-female cosmonaut program, which began training in 1963. Born on March the 6th, 1937, textile worker Valentina Tereshkova had no previous desire to fly in space, however, her love of skydiving made her an excellent candidate for the Soviet Space Program. Training included isolation tests, centrifuge g-force tests, thermo-chamber tests, decompression chamber tests and pilot training in the MiG-15 fighter jets. On June 16, 1963, Tereshkova reached outer space in her Vostok 6 rocket after a flawless liftoff. Although she experienced nausea and physical discomfort for most of the flight, she orbited the earth 48 times in just under of three days, making her the first and only woman to solo in space. As was the protocol in all Vostok missions, Tereshkova ejected from her capsule during its descent at about four miles above the earth, parachuting to ground in Kazakhstan on June 19th, 1963. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, Tereshkova stayed on at the Soviet Space Program as an instructor, graduating from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and retiring from the Air Force in 1997, having attained the rank of major general. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tereshkova was elected in 2011 to the national State Duma, much like the American House of Representatives, as a member of the United Russia party, re-elected for a second term in 2016. And there you have it, Valentina Tereshkova, The First Woman in Space, today on The Daily Dose.