Compléter The First Woman in SpaceVersion en ligne Fill in the blanks par NGUYEN BAO TRAN 1 Valentina Tereshkova was born in in Russia . She started working when she was . She also joined a local flying club and soon became a talented parachutist . Her talent for skydiving led her to the Soviet space program . In , while still a factory worker , she was accepted along with three other woman parachutists and a female pilot into the program . Together , they began intensive training to become cosmonauts . Tereshkova joined the Soviet Air Force . She became an Air Force officer after completing her training and passing an examination . In 1963 , at the age of , Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space . Her spacecraft Vostok 6 was guided by an automatic control system . She traveled into space in Vostok 6 on June 16 , 1963 , and successfully returned to Earth days later . After her historic space flight , Valentina Tereshkova received many awards , including the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin . She never flew in space again , and later became a test pilot and an instructor . She also completed a degree in technical sciences .