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  • so pleased to be back on Earth after nearly a year on the international space station, she's glad to be home, sliding off the Soyuz space capsule that brought her back.

  • She's getting used to the earth's gravity after being in space so long.

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  • Her stay is just 12 days short of the all time US record set by Scott Kelly in 2016.

  • Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut in 1963 early on in the Soviet Union space program.

  • But you didn't get a second mission five years ago at an event to unveil her space capture of the Science Museum in London.

  • She told me that it was because of sexism by her superiors.

  • At the bullet is way have been preparing for a female flight.

  • But it was.

  • Cora loves decision not to risk women's lives because or one of the women in the Space corps already had a family.

  • When you said Leslie good Ready Wade decision, we were talking about it, and indeed, we were writing to the Central Party committed disagreeing with that decision.

  • Even now, 90% of all those who've been in space have bean men, men and women are just as capable of being an astronaut's.

  • All astronauts should be chosen for their mission based on the skills and qualities that they have, and gender isn't one of them.

  • Late last year, Kristina Cooke was involved in another piece of history as she took part in the first all female spacewalk in more than half a century of space travel, NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon within the next four years.

  • Kristina Cooke is among the favorites to be the first woman to set foot on the moon, sliding off the Soyuz space capsule that brought her back.

  • She's getting used to the earth's gravity after being in space So long.

  • Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut in 1963.

  • But you didn't get a second mission.

  • She took part in the first all female spacewalk in more than half a century of space travel.

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so pleased to be back on Earth after nearly a year on the international space station, she's glad to be home, sliding off the Soyuz space capsule that brought her back.

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