#cosmonaut
Yesterday Expedition 61 landed safely back on Earth.
Some space age reading material. A brilliant & colourful cover depicting the passion of the space race between the USA & USSR courtesy Time Magazine, Dec 6, 1968. Later that month, NASA would win the race to a crewed lunar orbit via Apollo 8 & astronauts James Lovell, Frank Borman & William Anders. Such an exciting decade of historic firsts.
Space legend. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space when she flew Vostok 6 in June 1963. The solo flight orbited Earth 48 times over a 2-day, 23 hour mission. She was selected from 400 applicants & it was her only spaceflight. She is the only woman ever to fly a solo space mission & in 2013 offered to go on a 1-way trip to Mars if the opportunity popped up. She flew at the age of 25 & remains the youngest woman to have flown in space.