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Image # : womencosmonauts
Date : 1963

Title

Three Women Cosmonauts

Full Description

Here are three women cosmonauts at Tyura-Tam prior to the launch of Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963. Left to right are Valentina Ponomareva, backup Irina Solovyeva, and prime crewmember Valentina Tereshkova. Behind the women are State Commission Chairman Georgiy Tyulin (left) and Strategic Missile Forces Commander-in-Chief Sergey Biryuzov. Tereshkova was the first women in space, spending 3 days aboard Vostok 6.

Keywords

Valentina Tereshkova Ponomareva Solovyeva Tyulin Biryuzov Vostok

Subject Category

Women,

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  • Center: HQ
  • Center Number: womencosmonauts
  • GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2002-000173

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  • Original Source: DIGITAL

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Thumbnail JPEG 72 40 5
Small JPEG 512 284 125
Medium JPEG 1200 665 653
Large JPEG 1 1329 2,039

Publication Information

Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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