| Space pioneers |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| Valentina Tereshkova |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| Cosmonaut |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| The first woman in space |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
This photograph shows Valentina in her spacesuit.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| Key dates |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
1937 born near Yaroslavl, west Russia
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| 1945 started school |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
1954 started working in a factory, continued learning in her free
time
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| 1959 first parachute jump |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| 1962 joined the space programme |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
1963 became the first woman in space, married Andrian Nikolayev
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
1964 her daughter was born, trained as a cosmonaut engineer
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
1969-97 worked in the Russian Air Force
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
2007 told her dream: a flight to Mars
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina Tereshkova was born on 6th March, 1937 near the city of
Yaroslavl in western Russia.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Her father was a tractor driver. Her mother worked in a factory.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
When she was two years old, her father died in war-time battle.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
She started school when she was eight.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
At seventeen, she started working in a factory.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina enjoyed learning so she continued her education in her
free time.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
There was a flying club in Yaroslavl.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina joined and she learned to sky-dive.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
She made her first parachute jump on 21st May,1959.She was 22
years old.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
She became a spinning engineer at the factory but she parachuted
from planes many times.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
In 1961 the Russian space engineers had an idea.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
They wanted a Russian to be the first woman cosmonaut.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
The woman could not be too tall or too heavy.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
She had to be young enough and fit enough to fly in space.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| This was the description: |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| age - under 30 years old |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| weight - under 70 Kg |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| height - under 170 cm |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
important: she must be able to parachute.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina fitted this description.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
More than 50 young woman did the tests but only a few women were
good enough.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina and four other women joined the space programme in
February, 1962.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| Valentina trained hard. |
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
In November the space engineers chose her for the special flight.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
" You will be the first woman in space," they told her. Valentina
was delighted.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
At last the day of the flight arrived.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
On 16th June, 1963 Valentina took off in the spacecraft Vostok 6.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
The flight lasted almost three days.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
During the flight she spoke to people on the ground.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Her call sign was Chaika. In English this means seagull.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
This is the word in Russian: YáЙka.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
In November she married another cosmonaut. Her husband was Andrian
Nikolayev.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Their daughter, Elena was born in 1964.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina trained as a cosmonaut engineer then she worked in the
Russian Air Force unit 1997.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Valentina Tereshkova became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
She received the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
On her seventieth birthday she told a newspaper reporter:"I still
have one dream: a flight to Mars. It is the dream of all
cosmonauts."
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
The first men in space exploration
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Vostok 1: this space rocket took Yuri Gagarin into orbit round the
Earth.
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Yuri Gagarin Russia the first man in space, the first orbit of the
Earth 12th April, 1961
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Alexei Leonov Russia the first space walk 18th March, 1965
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
|
Neil Armstrong America the first man on the moon 21st July, 1969
|
play_circle
pause_circle
|
| Listen 5 times |
play_circle
pause_circle
|