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World’s first space girl Valentina Tereshkova circles globe
In a historic flight Valentina Tereshkova, 26, circled the world 48 times covering over 1,240,000 miles in 71 hours. Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky, 28, set a new orbital record with 81 laps in 119 hours. Both landed in Kazakhstan after the Soviet space mission.
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Moscow
Russia
Valentina Tereshkaya
Valery Bykovsky
Siberia
Tass
Valentina
Earth
Kazakhstan
Karanganda
Valentina Bykovsky
Kustanai
Bykovsky
Andrian Nikolayevy
Pavel Popovich
Khrushchev
Trud
Tereshkova
Alort
Bernard Lovell
Manchester University Radio Observatory
Jodrell Bank
England
Lovell