Valentina Tereshkova

“I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.”

“You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.”

“I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautif...”

“We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.”