Prior to the flight, Tereshkova, alonside 2 other women decided to visit a hairdresser, to redye their hair and do their makeup, which caused the flight organizers headaches since the cosmonaut photos were already being published, resulting in an order to undo the salon job
A flight delay due to bad weather of both, Tereshkova and Bykovsky caused the woman severe stress and medical concerns over her well being.
When in space, Tereshkova missed her contact point, and to the shock of doctors, her vital signs revealed she had fallen asleep, with radio contact from Earth unable to wake her up. Valery Bykovsky, launched into space on his own rocket was radiod in to wake up Tereshkova via a direct channel to her.
Upon awakening, Bykovsky remembers an offended Tereshkova responding bitterly "Valery, why are you referring to me as "Ms." Tereshkova"
Upon landing, Tereshkova broke another 2 rules of spaceflight. She accepted food from a nearby village, and gave out her rations of space food as "souvenirs". Tereshkova was planned to be carefully examined by doctors after the flight, which prohibited any earth food intake after landing, and the effects of spaceflight on space food rations were also supposed to be studied by scientists
Upon hearing this news, Korolev (The head of the spaceflight division, and the main rocket engineer) allegedly said "There is no chance I send another woman to space so long as I am alive." The next woman to visit space was Savitskaya, after Korolev has passed away
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