41. The mission's launch was 49 years to the day after that of the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova . 42. The couple divorced in 1982, and Tereshkova went on to become a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 43. Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals. 44. He died in the Finnish Winter War during World War II in the Lemetti area in Finnish Karelia when Tereshkova was two years old. 45. Vostok 5 would now carry a male, cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, flying the joint mission with Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963. 46. The world's first female spacecraft pilot was Valentina Tereshkova , a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth for three days in June 1963. 47. "But you'd be interested to know that your friend Valentina Tereshkova thinks we are not dinosaurs, but pterodactyls ." 48. Armstrong was the first American civilian in space, but the first civilian was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union, nearly three years earlier. 49. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6. 50. None of the other four in Tereshkova 's early group flew, and, in October 1969, the pioneering female cosmonaut group was dissolved.
