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... that Mae Jemison(pictured), the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian
refugee camp in Thailand while in medical school and was a medical officer for the
Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut?
... that Valentina Tereshkova(pictured), the first woman in space, is also the youngest woman to ever go to space and the only woman to ever do it solo?
... that Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova(pictured), the first woman in space, spent almost 3 days in orbit, surpassing the combined flight time of all Americans that flew before her?
... that first woman in space, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova(pictured) and
Valery Bykovsky, in a longer concurrent spaceflight, each surpassed the combined flight time of all Americans before them?
... that two
Russian tortoises were among the first Earthlings that flew around the Moon and returned safely to Earth on Zond 5?
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... that Luna 2, on its way to becoming the first human-made object to make contact with the Moon, also made the first direct measurement of
solar wind flux from outside Earth's
magnetosphere?
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