COSMONAUT MARRIAGE.

COSMONAUT MARRIAGE.
FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE VALENTINA TERESHKOVA ON HER MARRIAGE TO FELLOW COSMONAUT ANDRIYAN NIKOLAYEV
Autograph Manuscript, 1 page, 11 3/4 x 8 inches, on the blank verso of a printed form titled "В ФОНОТЕКУ ГОСКОМИТЕТА," in Russian, being notes for a radio interview.

Tereshkova made international history on June 16, 1963 when she became the first woman to fly into space aboard Vostok 6, 2 decades before NASA would put a woman into space. Tereshkova again made international history in 1963 when she married Andriyan Nikolayev, the 3rd Soviet Cosmonaut to fly into space, on November 3rd. The present document finds Tereshkova working on two statements for a radio interview regarding the marriage.
1. "Tereshk. As for me personally, everyone knows that in our PERSONAL [CROSSED THROUGH] lifetime with Andrian (I mean myself and Andrian), a tremendous event occurred. We became wife and husband - ONE CAN CALL US A 2 STAR FAMILY [CROSSED THROUGH}"
2. "Nikol: As for me personally, Valya has already said about that happy event, which happened in our life."
The couple would go on to have one child, Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, the first child of both a mother and father who had traveled into space.