* Write questions to complete the conversations.
1. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: The first woman to be in space is Valentina Tereshkova.
2. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: Valentina Tereshkova was born in Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl, Russia.
3. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: She was only 26 when she made her one and only space flight.
4. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: She was sent into space in the spacecraft Vostok 6.
5. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: The spacecraft was launched on June 16,1963.
6. A: How many times did she orbit Earth in her space capsule, Vostok 6?
B: She orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6.
7. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: She was picked for the cosmonaut program because of her expertise in parachute jumping.
8. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: Tereshkova parachuted from the Vostok 6 after re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.
9. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
B: She landed in the Altay region near today’s Kazakhstan-Mongolia-China border.
10. A: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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B: It took another 19 years until cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to travel into space.
