When Valentina Tereshkova was 26 years old, she became the first female astronaut to go to space. After quitting school early and joining her family’s factory business, her early life did not appear to be on a trajectory to the stars. However, her daring passion for parachute jumping, which she developed early into adulthood, is what brought her on track to joining the Soviet space program and made her a trailblazing space traveller.
After the space program was successful in sending the first person into space – Yuri Gagarin
