Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...

There was nothing in Valentina Tereshkova’s early life that indicated she would become a space pioneer. Born to a farming family in 1937 in the Yaroslavl region about 200 miles northeast of ...

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 ...