Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A .) Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that the August decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline.
NASA officials were reportedly especially impressed with her course on The American Woman which she had developed and taught. Barbara Morgan was the backup Teacher in Space who also trained with NASA in the astronaut training program. Christa McAuliffe was scheduled to teach two lessons from the space shuttle.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go in space. She was Russian. Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space aboard the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963, becoming the first â¦ woman to visit outer space, she spent three days aloft before returning safely to Earth.he first woman to fly in outer space was the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who piloted the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.