Crispy Branzino on Nostr: Never forget: Valentina Tereshkova, a soviet communist, was the first female ...

Never forget: Valentina Tereshkova, a soviet communist, was the first female cosmonaut in space. Sally would wait another twenty years before capitalist hegemony acquiesced to the idea of sending a woman into space (arguably due solely to soviet pressure).

Sally ride wasnt even the second woman in space. That title is reserved for soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya.