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| A Vostok capsule took Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into space in 1963. Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. Here technicians prepare a Vostok capsule for launch by mounting it in the nose cone of the rocket that will take it into space. | ||||||
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| Space Exploration; Tereshkova, Valentina; Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich; Vostok Program | ||||||
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