On this day in 1963 Russian Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
I've watched through the series twice, and I can't remember a single mention of this. Can anyone think of a reason why?
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Agreed, but I think a little mention would have been appropriate, perhaps in the all-wives episode.
shareWell, look how many Gemini missions are ignored or only mentioned briefly. Apollo 10 only gets a few seconds of airtime. Valentina Tereshkova's flight is hardly the only event being overlooked in this series. In the DVD set, though, there is a bonus feature Space Race Timeline that mentions Tereshkova. Not much, but it's something.
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Agreed, but I think a little mention would have been appropriate...Probably not. She was a passenger (brave or not) just like the others in the initial Vostok/Voskhod flights. Gagarin's first flight. Titov's one day (a whole day?)... and Leonov's eva (really, really brave)... they're worth mentioning. share
The wives' episode was an effort to give some credit to the women who (in many cases) were anchors for the men on the missions. Given the state of gender norms in the US in the 60s and the decades before, this was, unfortunately, the most that could have been shown of women's contributions to the US space program.
To mention Valentina Tereshkova's accomplishment in the middle couldn't have been anything but a smack in the face to people who were doing the most that their society would allow at the time: "While the society these women lived in didn't expect more from them than pot roasts and babies, the Soviet Union was sending women into space!"
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The mini-series was about the final push to the moon with the Apollo program, with Mercury and Gemini highlights covered in Episode 1 as background setup to Apollo. Please tell me what Valentina Tereshkova had to do with any of that? Your comment is akin to going to a Schwarzenneger movie and complaining that you didn't see Stallone in it.
If you want to see highlights of the Soviet program (or German WW2 program), watch a documentary that has a broader focus, like 'Rocket Science'. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428153/
The series go deeper than just the final push. Have you even watched it?
So Tereshkova isn't mentioned, fine. I don't care THAT much, I just thought it was worth a mention, since Gagarin being the first man (and male) in space was a gigantic smack in the face to the U.S. Space Program. The Russians had the first woman too - that was my message here.
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Because From the Earth to the Moon was about the Apollo series of missions. The only time the Russians were mentioned is when they had significantly bigger accomplishments at that point then NASA.
shareGagarin was a huge deal because he was the first HUMAN in space. The fact that he had a penis is irrelevant.
Tereshkova's flight broke no new ground. The fact that she was the first woman in space is about as relevant as the fact that she was also the first civilian in space. Both interesting bits of trivia, but not terribly important to space exploration itself.
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I heard the russians had a heck of a time getting that kitchen stove in there!
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Gagarin was a huge deal because he was the first HUMAN in space. The fact that he had a penis is irrelevant.
Good one!
The Russkies did their space launches in secret. They only announced them when they got a live astronaut back.
We Yanks put our balls on the chopping block and broadcast our launches live, with cheerleading by CBS’s Walter Cronkite.
> The series go deeper than just the final push. Have you even watched it?
Weird question.
There are twelve episodes. One episode - exactly one - covers everything that happened before the Apollo program began. Eleven episode are about the Apollo program, all of which was well after Tereshkova's mission, which occurred in 1963, nearly two years before the first Gemini flight. It's like asking why Pete Best didn't play on Sergeant Pepper.
It's like asking why Pete Best didn't play on Sergeant Pepper.Yes, a little late, but good one, centurion. They clearly should've given Pete a credit. share
On this day in 1963 Russian Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
I've watched through the series twice, and I can't remember a single mention of this. Can anyone think of a reason why?
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