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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova [ a ] [ b ] born 6 March is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma , and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space , having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.

Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest woman to have flown in space under the international definition of km altitude, and the youngest woman to fly in Earth orbit. Before her selection for the Soviet space programme , Tereshkova was a textile factory worker and an amateur skydiver. She joined the Air Force as part of the Cosmonaut Corps and was commissioned as an officer after completing her training.

After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in , Tereshkova remained in the space programme as a cosmonaut instructor. She later graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and re-qualified for spaceflight, but never went to space again. She retired from the Air Force in having attained the rank of major general.

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Tereshkova was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , holding various political offices including being a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from to She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union but twice lost elections to the national State Duma in and Tereshkova was later elected in to her regional parliament , the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma.

In , she was elected to the national State Duma as a member of the ruling United Russia party and was re-elected in and She has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Valentina Tereshkova was born on 6 March in the Bolshoye Maslennikovo , a village on the Volga River [ 2 ] kilometres mi northeast of Moscow and part of the Yaroslavl Oblast in central Russia.

He died in the Finnish Winter War when Tereshkova was two years of age.