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26 years old, okay, Vostok 6 orbited the Earth 48 times in almost three days worth of transit. So just imagine she's sitting there, this young textile worker, amateur parachute, 26 year old gal cosmonaut alone circling the Earth every hour and a half. It's just kind of mind-boggling. Definitely, I wouldn't have signed up for that myself. And then the ending was almost as dramatic as launch. After reentry, she did not ride the spacecraft all over the ground. As I mentioned, she ejected miles above the Earth and came down, you know, free in her, you know, by herself as an original parachute after the mission. Obviously, she became a symbol of Soviet space achievement, honored as a hero, and, you know, international public figure as the first person.