... Earth Satellites . ... First up, who better to start with than the тАШfirst lady of spaceтАЩ; Valentina Tereshkova. ... So under the direction of Nikita Khrushchev, Tereshkova and three other women where trained under the Russian тАШWomen in SpaceтАЩ program but only Tereshkova would make it off Earth! ... But to commemorate her historic mission there is a gleaming statue of the woman herself to commemorate her achievement of orbiting the Earth 48 times and spending nearly three days in space. ...
NASA Press Release 98-97: NASA Names Astronaut Class of 1998 . NASA Press Release 98-155: International Candidates Join 1998 Astronaut Class . ... Lee J. Archambault (Maj., ... Tracy E. Caldwell, Ph.D. Gregory E. Chamitoff, Ph.D. Timothy J. Creamer (LTC., ... Cmdr., USN) . ... European Space Agency . ... Astronaut Class of 1995 . Astronaut Class of 1996 . Astronaut Class of 2000 . ... Responsible NASA Official: Bernadette Hajek, Technical Assistant to the Chief, Astronaut Office . ...