Tereshkova

5 The first woman space, Valentina Tereshkova's mission was more eventful than her male comrade's.

5 THE first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova's mission was more eventful than her male comrade's.

We told how Russian cosmonaut Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.

| 1963: The first woman astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova, blasted off in the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 6.

Topics include Africa as a periphery, Indian caste quarters, nomads in the Sahara Desert, the South African backyard, Polish migrants, European cultural projects, the Greek financial crisis, and films, novels, and art about marginalized communities and repressed histories, such as Neill Blomkamp's District 9, Sebastien Lifeshitz's Wild Side, the work of Leslie Maron Silko, Willie Doherty's Ancient Ground, Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Ksenia Buksha's The Freedom Factory, Igor Saveljev's Tereshkova is Flying to Mars, the French queer magazine La Revue Monstre, and Michael James O'Brien's Interiors.

Serova will become only the fourth Russian female cosmonaut to fly in space and was greeted at the farewell ceremony by Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space.

The second and third sections tackle more widely known female American astronauts, from Sally Ride to Mae Jemison, and Russian cosmonauts, from Valentina Tereshkova to Yelena Serova.

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space wordwise The word may sound familiar, but what does it mean?

Hilary, from Pollokshields, Glasgow, chose Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova as her favourite female icon, while Karen, 50, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, chose mathematician Augusta Ada King.

Anthony, Marie Curie, Shirley Chisholm, Amelia Earhart, Esther Morris, Suze Orman, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eleanor Roosevelt, Wilma Rudolph, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mother Theresa, Valentina Tereshkova, Harriet Tubman, Madam C.J.