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Valued exposure: Space woman

Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova practises eating in simulated flight conditions for her flight as the first woman in space.

Lieutenant Tereshkova, 26, was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched on 16 June 1963, 1230 Moscow time.

Moscow Television broadcast the first pictures of Tereshkova - code-named Seagull - ninety minutes later.

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