Valentina Tereshkova Quotes

• Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Children, Dream

  Tags in dream

• I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commission, Schedule

• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in History

  Tags in Development

• Once you’ve been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Space, Earth

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Russia

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility – we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exploration, Responsibility

• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Change

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn’t happen.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argument, Happen

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn’t want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Telling, Adventure

Valentina Tereshkova (9)

Birth:	6th March, 1937
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Pilot

About

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.

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