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   ocr: Arts & Letters SpaceAGE - Vostok 1 Vostok 2 Vostok 3 Vostok 6 June 16, 1963, was the date of the last Vostok manned + Vostok 4 Vostok 5 Vostok 6 space mission. Cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova in her capsule, named Sea Gull, flew for 70 hours 50 Gallery Intro minutes to become the first woman in space. She completed 48 orbits around the Earth. After her mission, Tereshkova married Vostok 3 cosmonaut Andrian G. Nikolayev. Though this was the last ofthe Vostok missions, It marked a biq first: the first female in space. Vostok 6, Gallery Vostok Slides To display images from the Vostok missions, ...