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Same reason Russia launched the first woman. So they can say they did it before the US. China in general want to go to the moon.
by panick21_ 3y ago
Same reason Russia launched the first woman. So they can say they did it before the US.
China in general want to go to the moon.
- orbital-decay 3y agoTereshkova was one of the first people in space in the time when nothing was clear about long-term effects on human body. The decision to send a female cosmonaut came from Vladimir Yazdovsky, the pioneer of biomedicine in spaceflight, not from the party cogs or someone else.