Soviet Women Cosmonaut Flight Assignments 1963-1989

摘要

The first space flight by a woman cosmonaut was a propaganda coup for the former Soviet Union. The publicity was almost as massive as had been the case after Yuri Gagarin's flight Between the Vostok-6 mission in 1963 and the Soviet Union's collapse in 1989, two more flights were conducted in which a woman took part In both cases, publicity and beating the Americans in getting a place in the history books were the main reasons to fly a female cosmonaut Bert Vis takes a look at these missions and other plans to fly women on Soviet spacecraft