Valentina Tereshkova, callsign ‘Chaika’ (‘Seagull’), used to work as a dressmaker and a textile factory assembly worker. She walked away from the factory at 21 years of age to fulfill her dream of becoming Great Mother Russia’s ‘cosmonette’. A passionate skydiver, at 28 she started training as a cosmonaut.

Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure.

Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit