The world’s first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova said on 6 March, the anniversary, today she is 80 years old.
The legendary “Seagull”, and just so the call went she in his legendary flight, congratulations to her today come not only from many parts of the world, but even from space. Astronauts on mission to the ISS, has congratulated the pride of the country.
“Thanks to you and your heroism, your amazing life and invaluable contribution to the history of our country has reached such heights, literally and figuratively,” said Andrei Borisenko.
“The scale of Your personality is awesome! You’re an amazing, unique, beautiful woman-cosmonaut, mother, grandmother, the idol of dozens of millions of earthlings. You have no equal! And we are here, it’s perfectly clear”, says Oleg Novitsky.
Roscosmos invited all social network users to join a congratulatory marathon and post on their pages warm words addressed Tereshkova with the hashtag campaign “Seagull anniversary”.
Historic flight, Valentina Vladimirovna, made June 16, 1963 as commander of the spacecraft “Vostok-6”. Was made 48 orbits around the Earth. Still Valentina Tereshkova is the only female astronaut who carried out the flight in the crew and piloting the ship yourself.
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