- Valentina was the first women to go to space.
- She is from Russia.
- She was born on March the 6th 1937.
- She left school early but developed an interest in skydiving. That was the reason why she was picked.
- She got chosen out of four hundred other applications and then out of five finalists to pilot Vostok 6.
- Her first three day mission she performed a lot of tests on herself to gather up data on the female body’s reaction to spaceflight.
