Tereshkova was a forced achievement of the Soviet space program. She was indeed the first woman in space, but the flight went so infamously bad that it prompted

Tereshkova was a forced achievement of the Soviet space program. She was indeed the first woman in space, but the flight went so infamously bad that it prompted Korolev to put in place a ban on any further women cosmonauts - ban that hold while he was alive and then almost some 20 years after.