The first woman in space spent more time up there than all American astronauts put together at that time. How long was she there?

Becoming the first woman in space, Soviet astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova, spent an extraordinary amount of time up there in 1963. At 71 hours, Tereshkova's logged time on her first mission clocked in at more than all her American counterparts to date at the time.

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