50th Anniversary of the First Woman in Space.

Russia Post released a stamp to commemorate 50th Anniversary of the First Woman in Space on 5th July 2013.

On June 16, 1963 spaceship “Vostok-6” was launched from the “Baikonur” space-vehicle launching site, carrying the world’s first woman-cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova  to space. In spite of the physical discomfort, Tereshkova endured 48 orbits around the Earth and spent almost 3 days in space. During the flight, she was keeping a logbook and was making photographs of the Earth’s horizon, which were later used for detection of aerosol layers in the atmosphere.