|Mission Name:||Vostok 6| |Call Sign:||Chayka (Чайка, translated
as "Seagull")| |Number of Crew Members:||1| |Launch:||June 16,
1963| |Landing:||June 19, 1963| |Duration:||2 days, 22 hours, 50
minutes| |Number of Orbits:||48| A joint flight with Vostok 5,
Vostok 6 carried the first woman into space, cosmonaut Valentina
Tereshkova. This was largely a publicity exercise on the part of
Soviet space programme director Sergei Korolev, but data was
collected on the female body's reaction to spaceflight. The
mission was originally conceived as being a joint mission with
two Vostoks carrying female cosmonauts, but this changed as the
Vostok programme was cut back The re-entry capsule is now on
display at the RKK Energia Museum in Kaluga. This was the final
Vostok flight.