Click to open image viewer. A child's toy, a model of a spacecraft, would not seem to be significant in the history of aerospace technology. However, this model marks a milestone in the road to ...

Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, whose first of three spaceflights was a joint mission with the world's first woman to fly into space, has died. He was 84. Bykovsky's death on Wednesday (March 27 ...

Valentina Tereshkova made history as the first woman in space during Vostok 6, paving the way for female representation in the Soviet space program. Valentina Tereshkova. NASA. On June 16, 1963, ...

On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 ...