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During the flight which lasted for two days and 22 hours Tereshkova orbited the Earth forty eight times. Her flight took place only two days after Vostok 5 was launched, piloted by Valery Bykovsky, and orbited the Earth simultaneously with his craft. In the course of her flight, ground crews collected data on her canada goose outlet store near me body reaction to spaceflight.
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