{"id":115464,"date":"2026-06-17T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/flight-of-the-seagull-valentina-tereshkova-became-the-first-woman-in-space-63-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:35:42","slug":"flight-of-the-seagull-valentina-tereshkova-became-the-first-woman-in-space-63-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/flight-of-the-seagull-valentina-tereshkova-became-the-first-woman-in-space-63-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the &#8216;seagull&#8217;: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space 63 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, a 26-year-old textile worker, became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6. Her flight, a political statement by Nikita Khrushchev, lasted nearly three days, completing 48 orbits. Tereshkova&#8217;s achievement, despite lacking formal pilot or engineering training, was celebrated globally, though she never flew again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, a 26-year-old textile worker, became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6. Her flight, a political statement by Nikita Khrushchev, lasted nearly three days, completing 48 orbits. Tereshkova&#8217;s achievement, despite lacking formal pilot or engineering training, was celebrated globally, though she never flew again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}