I’D BET ON HER MAKING IT IF SHE SET OUT: First woman in space ready for ‘one-way flight to Mars.’ “Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said on Friday she was ready to score another coup and fly to Mars, even if it would be just a one-way trip. . . . Tereshkova, who became a national heroine at the tender age of 26 when she made a solo space flight in 1963, said she had been part of the group who studied the possibility of going to the Red Planet. ‘But we know the human limits. And for us this remains a dream. Most likely the first flight will be one way. But I am ready,’ she said.”