Putin awarded the world's first female cosmonaut the Order of Gagarin
President Vladimir Putin awarded the world's first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova with the newly established Order of Gagarin, follows from a decree published on the official Internet portal of legal information of the Russian Federation.
"For outstanding achievements in the exploration of outer space, courage and dedication shown during the implementation of the historic manned flight into space, active public and international activities, to award the Order of Gagarin Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna — Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs", — the document says.
Putin established the Order of Gagarin in May. It was reported that they will be awarded for merits in the field of space.
Tereshkova's space flight began exactly 60 years ago — on June 16, 1963. On that day, the Vostok launch vehicle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and put the Vostok-6 spacecraft into orbit. The duration of the flight was two days, 22 hours and 50 minutes, the range was one million 971 thousand kilometers. The ship made 48 orbits around the Earth, and on June 19, the lander landed safely in the Altai Territory.
Tereshkova became the first woman in space and the sixth among Soviet cosmonauts. And so far she remains the only woman who has flown alone — all the others have flown only as part of crews. The next woman went into space only 19 years later — in 1982, it was Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, RIA Novosti reminds.
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