Shuttle Tereshkova

rtk142

I just want to give some kudos for naming Van Zyl's shuttle after Valentina Tereshkova. The average American has no clue who the first woman in space was nor that she went up 20 years before Sally Ride. I really appreciate things like that.

mreeves7a

Credit on this one will have to go to the show writers; Tereshkova was one of Voyager's named shuttles.

mirrorchaos

Valentina Tereshkova, Russian, former red officer with an honorary military career in the upper ranks because of her space flight. its noted that she probably got the position more because her father was a tank commander, Vladimir was a war hero according to the soviet books, he died in Finland somewhere. so its not what you know but probably who you know.

she also married another cosmonaut, Andriyan Nikolayev, another forner red officer but he died in 2004, they had a daughter and she became a doctor.

she was basically a propaganda piece for the reds back in the day to have a female astronaut to rub in the americans faces, to me she looks like a convienent tool for soviet purposes rather then an honest hard worker, like a lot of accolades were given to her then earned.

anyway, thats what i know of her off the top of my head.