If you don't know her name you should be ashamed of yourself. She was swingin back in the 60s because she was platinum baby. And she bought that bling with rubles and not dollars, bitch. Remember that she went up in a SOVIET rocket which I have said before is akin to tying dynamite to your ass like the Coyote and lighting the fuse. So have some respect. If you have never heard of her you should do da google. It's a great story.
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I swear I met Valentina "Chaika" Tereshkova at the Soviet Space Exhibit at Expo 86 (It was either "Chaika" or a middle aged woman who looked a lot like her). The building had a huge statue of Yuri Gagarin on the front and had a ton of Soviet space hardware including a ship whose name I cannot remember, but I was able to climb around inside. It was that soviet drab green and very cramped.
"Chaika" showed me a huge blocky device with a hand grip. "Is lazer," she said. "For welding in space." I was too intimidated to ask her too many questions back then. I wish I could go back in time. I would have charmed her into telling me her life story. Even if she wasn't "Chaika" I'm sure she would have had an interesting history.
OMG..if you never do anything else cool in your life you have filled your quotient with me. Her story is awesome - plucked from a textile factory because she was an amateur parachutist and the right height and weight. Picked from 400 other candidates and hurled into space in one of those famously well designed early Soviet spacecraft. Balls as big as churchbells. This girl was the real deal. Cool share bro.
I agree. Comrade Tereshkova was a true hero.
That whole program was full of heroes. Imagine what we could have achieved if they pooled their resources with the US? However, the competition was good in the fact that they didn't let a little thing like astronaut safety get in the way of progress.
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