Valentina Tereshkova ( bron on 6 martch 1937).Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, tutayevsky District, in central Russia. Tereshkova,s father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began schoole in 1945 at the age of eight ,but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning .She became interested in parachuting from a young age,and trained in skydiving at the local Aero club,making her first jump at age 22 on 21 may 1959.At that time ,she was employed as a textile worker in a local factory.It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut.After the filight of yori Gagarin (the first human being to travel to outer space in 1961)the soviet union decided to send a women in space.On 16feburary 1962, ’’proletaria’’ Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more then four hundred applications.Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless flights,isolation test centrifuge tests,rocket theory,spacecraft engineering,120parachute jump and pilot training in MiG 15UTI jet fighters.since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 june 1963,Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight.On the morning of 16 june 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in spach-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus.After completing her communication and life support checks,she was sealed inside Vostok-6.Finishing a two-hour countdown,Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.