Press conference dedicated to the flight of V.F. Bykovsky V.V. Tereshkova

USSR. Moscow. June 25, 1963. The world's first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (left), Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky (right), awarded the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medals, the first person to fly into space, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (left) and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (center) during the award ceremony after a press conference dedicated to the flight of V.F. Bykovsky and V.V. Tereshkova, in the assembly hall of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Vasily Egorov/TASS