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- Cosmonaut [r]: Person who has trained to go into space with the Russian space programme (previously Soviet programme). [e]
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- Vostok 1 [r]: {Russian: East 1) First spacecraft to carry a human into space; flown by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on 12th April 1961 on a single orbit of Earth in a mission lasting 108 minutes. [e]
- Valentina Tereshkova [r]: First woman in space; flew in Vostok 6 on 16th June 1963 (born 1937). [e]
- Battle of the Philippine Sea [r]: An carrier battle between the U.S. and Japan in June 1944, called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" due to the extremely heavy Japanese aircraft losses, marked the end of offensive Japanese capabilities, and gave the U.S. control of the islands from which the major B-29 bomber offensive against the Japanese Home Islands could be conducted [e]
- Helen Sharman [r]: First British person in space (1991); science communicator and chemist (born 1963). [e]