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Topic: Vostok 6: Valentina Tereshkova's flight patch

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 06-14-2013 03:30 PM collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0"><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-061413a-first-woman-space-tereshkova-mission-patch.html">Fifty years ago, first woman to fly in space wore world's first mission patch</a></font> [i]Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who 50 years ago this Sunday (June 16) launched aboard the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission, set a world record by becoming the first woman in space. But her gender wasn't the only contribution that Tereshkova made to the cultural history of space exploration — she was also the first to wear a mission emblem on her spacesuit, although it was hidden from view. Now half a century later, a Dutch artist is set to bring that patch into the light — and to the public — by producing replicas.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-061413a-first-woman-space-tereshkova-mission-patch.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-061413e-lg.jpg" width="400" height="475" border="0"></a></center>
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