Cosmonautics day | Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin in Mexico [English version]
Cosmonautics day | Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin in Mexico (English version) By Giselle Bourgoing (Ledesma, 2022) Today, April 12th, we commemorate Cosmonautics Day because of the first space voyage by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. That is why today we will remember the interview that the cosmonauts, Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin, gave to Radio UNAM during their visit to Mexico, my home country (Archivo Sonoro, 2018). It is important to point out that during the famous space race, on April 12th, 1961, the USSR managed to send the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, who would become the first cosmonaut (United Press International, 1961). While on June 16th, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space, that is, the first female cosmonaut (The New York Times, 2022). In October 1963, Valentina and Yuri visited Mexico City for the international aeronautical congress, where they were received by President Adolfo López Mateos. It should be noted...