1 rubel 1983 USSR/Rusia CuNi proof coin – First Woman in Space
20th Anniversary of the First Woman in Space
Valentina Tereshkova
Ride was one of the first four “New Guys” launched into orbit when she was a member of Challenger’s STS-7 crew, which lifted off June 18, 1983. She was preceded in space by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova who flew aboard Vostok 6 in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya, on Soyuz T-7, in 1982.
