Soviet Space Program: <i id="mwARM"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_6" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vostok 6">Vostok 6</a></i> mission: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonaut" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cosmonaut">Cosmonaut</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Valentina Tereshkova">Valentina Tereshkova</a> becomes the first woman in space.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_16#cite_note-9" id="mwARc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARg">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt52" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFPinkham2019">Pinkham, Sophie (16 July 2019). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/how-the-soviets-won-the-space-race-for-equality.html" id="mwBxk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality"</a>. <i id="mwBxo">The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBxs">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBxw">31 January</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt52" class="Z3988" id="mwBx0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=How+the+Soviets+Won+the+Space+Race+for+Equality&amp;rft.date=2019-07-16&amp;rft.aulast=Pinkham&amp;rft.aufirst=Sophie&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F07%2F16%2Fus%2Fhow-the-soviets-won-the-space-race-for-equality.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+16"></span></span>