Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman in the world to achieve space flight, the only female general in Russia, and is known as a "national hero" ", "Women of the Century", has won the United Nations Peace Gold Medal, the Lenin Medal, the Tsiolkovsky Medal, etc., and is an honorary citizen of more than a dozen cities in the world. A crater on the back of the moon is named after her. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a doctor of technical sciences. She is the only woman in Russia to hold the rank of aviation major general and the winner of the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union". She has been awarded the Order of Lenin twice and has received high-level medals from many countries around the world. Tereshkova continues to be actively engaged in social activities and hopes to participate in Mars expeditions. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 in the village of Maslennikova, Tutayev District, Yaroslavl Region, Soviet Union, into a worker family. She was 18 years old. When she was young, she began to work as a woolen spinner in the state-owned "Hongqu" Textile Joint Factory, and concurrently served as secretary of the factory's Communist Youth League. In 1959, at the age of 22, she first came into contact with an activity related to the career that changed her life: skydiving at the Yaroslavl Aviation Club. In 1960, she graduated from the Textile Technology College (correspondence course) and was awarded the title of Textile Technician. He joined the Soviet Union in 1962 and received astronaut training at the Space Navigation School, during which he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant. On June 16, 1963, she took off in the spacecraft Vostok 6. She flew for 70 hours, 40 minutes and 49 seconds and circled the earth 48 times, becoming the first woman in space. Later, she married Nikolayev, the astronaut who flew the Vostok-3 spacecraft, and formed the world's first astronaut family.