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Year - 1983 , - Sc#C155, Mic# Block 134,
PAINTER - T. ALEKSIEV ;
Air post,WOMEN IN SPACE , VALENTINA TERESHKOVA , SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA
Valentina Tereshkova
was born on March 6, 1937. Her father was a tractor driver. Valentina´s mother worked in a textile plant. Valentina started school in 1945 when she was eight years old. She left school to begin working in a textile plant in 1953. She was able to continue her education through correspondence courses. Valentina became interested in parachute jumping when she was young. Her parachute jumping was one of the reasons she was picked for the cosmonaut program. On June 16,1963 Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman to travel in space. Valentina Tereshkova made 48 orbits of Earth. She spent almost three days in space. In November of 1963, Valentina Tereshkova married Andrian Nikolayev. He was also a cosmonaut. Their daughter, Elena, was born in 1964. Elena was the first child born to a mother and a father who had both traveled in space. Valentina Tereshkova never made a second trip into space. She became an important member of the Communist Party and a representative of the Soviet government.
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
( born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She is the daughter of a Soviet military commander Yevgeniy Savitskiy. While on the Salyut 7 space station on July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman ever to perform a space walk. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. She was twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal. She is also a test and sports pilot - starting from 1974 she set 18 international world records on MiG aircraft and three records in team parachute jumping. She also won the first place in the 6th FAI World Aerobatic Championship in 1970.
Soyuz T-7
(code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
A joint flight with Vostok 5, Vostok 6
carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. (See also: List of firsts) This was to some degree a publicity exercise on the part of Soviet government. The chief designer for the Vostok program was Sergei Korolev, Data was collected on the female body´s reaction to spaceflight. Like other cosmonauts on Vostok missions, she maintained a flight log, took photographs, and manually oriented the spacecraft. Her photographs of the horizon from space were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere. The mission was originally conceived as being a joint mission with two Vostoks each carrying a female cosmonaut, but this changed as the Vostok program experienced cutbacks as a precursor to the retooling of the program into the Voskhod program. According to reports and rumors over the years, Tereshkova was reported to have experienced several physical problems during her flight, including space sickness and significant menstruation. Some reports also claim that at one point in the flight she had become hysterical and began crying uncontrollably until verbally scolded back to rationality by Sergei Korolev over the radio link. However, despite her problems, records and evidence both from before and after the fall of the Soviet Union contend that she completed the flight program as specified. The landing site was the Pavinskiy Collective Farm west of Bayevo in the Altai Region. The re-entry capsule is now on display at the RKK Energia Museum in Korolyov (near Moscow). This was the final Vostok flight.
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MiNr. 3191 - 3192 (Block 134) Bulgarien
1983, 28. Juni. Blockausgabe: 20. Jahrestag des ersten Weltraumfluges einer Frau. RaTdr.; gez. Ks 13.
dvx) Walentina Tereschkowa, Flug mit Wostok-6 (1963)
dvy) Swetlana Sawizkaja, Flug mit Sojus T-7 (1982)
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