Valentina Tereshkova
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Sep 20, 2026
Emma NelsonHOST
There's that wonderful story, isn't it, here, about the first woman in space, the Russian, whose name is...
Emma NelsonHOST
Valentina Tereshkova.
Emma NelsonHOST
Thank you very much.
Emma NelsonHOST
They gave her everything apart from a toothbrush.
Nancy DurrantHOST
into space it was a serious it was a serious space program backed by the government and and i cannot wait to hear about it i think it's going to be amazing
Nick ClarkHOST
jump in with a slight aside here about 10 years ago i interviewed the first woman in space who was a russian cosmonaut called valentina tereshkova she told me this extraordinary story it's nothing to do with theater sorry but it's like aside um she she told me this extraordinary story how it took months and months of trying to find the right people to train them up get all the processes in place and then they sent her into space without a toothbrush which i thought was brilliant
Nancy DurrantHOST
I thought you were going to say they sent her into space with no tampons, which would really not have surprised me.
Nancy DurrantHOST
She didn't go into
Alyssa CarrollHOST
For a time, the winds were in excess of 170 mph, and though she did so much damage to so many areas all around there, she struck eastern Cuba on October 4th and stalled for nearly four days, dropping absolutely historic amounts of rain before moving into the Atlantic and becoming an extra-tropical storm on October 12th.
Alyssa CarrollHOST
The Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, was launched in the Vostok 6 spacecraft.
Alyssa CarrollHOST
She was in space for three days, then safely landed back on Earth.
Alyssa CarrollHOST
Though I suspect a lot of you might not know who she is, unless you're a little older, but at the time, the very famous country music star Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash along with two other country performers and their manager during a flight from Kansas City, Missouri, my home state, back to Nashville, Tennessee, my other, I consider, home state.
Brian LupoHOST
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Ashe in AmericaHOST
Valentina Tereshkova?
Cam CookseyHOST
Valentina? I wasn't expecting that.
ChristyHOST
Didn't they name the little dog astronaut in Guardians of the Galaxy? Wasn't that that name? Maybe I'm wrong.
Nate HaleHOST
making him the first man to ever orbit the Earth.
Nate HaleHOST
The Soviets also beat the U.S. in having the first multi-person team in space, the first spacewalk, and the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova.
Nate HaleHOST
All of this put a tremendous amount of pressure on NASA to come out on top by being the first to put a man on the moon.
Nate HaleHOST
Then on July 16, 1969, the Saturn V rocket carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
CaseyHOST
That wasn't the parent challenge? My goodness.
QuinnHOST
Who was the first woman to travel into space, orbiting Earth abroad the Soviet Vostok 6 mission in 1963?
CaseyHOST
I was gonna say Sally Ride, but she was American.
CaseyHOST
So I will say Nadia Comaneci.
CaseyHOST
She was a gymnast.
QuinnHOST
Valentina Tereshkova.
QuinnHOST
She was a cosmonaut.
CaseyHOST
Oh.