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The school in Valentina Tereshkova study was Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya Imeni Professora N.ye.zhukovskogo, at the age of 8 years
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Born: March 6, 1937 Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Russia
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The Valentina Tereshkova parents are Elena Tereshkova (Mother) and Vladimir Tereshkov (Father)
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Valentina has one sistern and one brther Vladimir Tereshkov (Brother) and Ludmila Tereshkova (Sister)
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On November 3, 1963 she married cosmonaut Andrián Nikoláyev (1929-2004)
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Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. In 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6
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On June 8, 1964 valentina tereshkova gave birth to her first and only daughter, her name is Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova