Valenitina Tereshkovas Personnel File

Sale 1967 - Lot 392

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000

THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE APPLIES TO BE A COSMONAUT Valenitina Tereshkova's Personnel File. Consisting of a photograph and 5 documents typed in Russian: 5x7 inch silver print photograph in uniform; Official summarized resume and short reference prepared by her military unit, original typescript signed by the Chair of the Human Resources Department of Military Unit 26266 and dated 26 March, 1964. Officially verified copies of Tereshkova's Application with her request for consideration as a cosmonaut dated 10 January 1962; Questionnaire; and a reference from her former employer, the Yaroslavl plant "Krasnyi perekop", dated 10 November, 1962, in original blue card folder with a contemporary annotation in Kamanin's hand on the upper cover and titled in blue ink with her name. All 4to, minor soiling. Star City: 1962-64

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Colonel-Engineer Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova became the first woman in space on 16 June, 1963 aboard Vostok 6, in a joint flight with Vostok 5. She remained the only Russian woman to go into space until Svetlana Savitskaya 19 years later. It was chief engineer Korolev's idea just after Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight to put a woman into orbit primarily for propaganda purposes, yet it was Premier Khrushchev himself that made the final crew selection.