📅 16 June 1963
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space.
📅 16 June 1963
The Vostok 6 mission began from Soviet Central Asia and went on to orbit Earth 48 times.
📅 16 June 1963
Tereshkova’s launch showed a woman could perform an orbital spaceflight despite earlier exclusion.
📅 16 June 1963
The spacecraft put Tereshkova in Earth orbit for a mission lasting nearly three days.
