On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...

When director Cristina Costantini started making a documentary about the first US woman in space, she thought it would be ...

June 19 has witnessed some of the most transformative events in world history, spanning social justice milestones, groundbreaking scientific achievements, ...

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as ...

People celebrate in Red Square as Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 orbit the Earth with Soviet cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Valentina Tereshkova, respectively. Bykovsky made the longest solo orbital flight ...

Blue Origin has been flying tourists into space since 2021. The last time there was an all-female space flight was in 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova did a solo flight on a Soviet spacecraft.

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