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Image: Valentina Tereshkova and Catherine Coleman

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Description: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Dec. 2, 2010, NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman (right), Expedition 26 flight engineer, meets with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space, on the eve of Coleman's departure for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where she and her crewmates, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency will launch Dec. 16, Kazakhstan time, on the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Tereshkova, 73, became the first woman to fly in space on June 16, 1963 aboard the USSR's Vostok 6 spacecraft.
Title: Valentina Tereshkova and Catherine Coleman
Credit: NASA
Author: NASA/Mike Fossum
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