St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: February 19, 2022

St. Louis MO

20 February, 2022

9:30 AM

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Press release from St. Louis Science Center: February 19, 2022 On this date in 1970, Nikolai Kamanin, head of the Soviet Cosmonaut Corps, writes in his diary that he had another run in with Valentina Tereshkova. Tereshkova was the first woman in space, and Kamanin writes that she corners him after every cosmonaut meeting to ask when another female flight will be scheduled. Although he does not tell Tereshkova, he notes in his diary that he knows this will "never happen". This press release was produced by St. Louis Science Center. The views expressed here are the author's own.