Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born March 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five finalists, to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16 June, 1963, becoming both the first woman and the first civilian to fly in space, as she was only honorarily inducted into the USSR's Air Force as a condition on joining the Cosmonaut Corps. During her three-day mission, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.
Before being recruited as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she stayed in politics and remains revered as a hero in post-Soviet Russia.
Plot
The movie is based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and 3 interesting women, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who in the search for their father who disappeared during an experiment he was working on for the government. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other. They must learn to trust each other and to understand that everyone is different.
Keywords: based-on-novel, brother-sister-relationship, dimension, experiment-gone-wrong, fantasy-world, father, friend, journey, misfit, monster
To rescue their father, they must save the universe.
Meg Murry: I love you Charles Wallace.::Charles Wallace Murry: I love you.
Calvin O'Keefe: I'd come with you if they'd let me.::Meg Murry: I know.::Calvin O'Keefe: I'd kiss you, but your dad's here.::[Meg laughs]::Meg Murry: I'm ready.
Charles Wallace Murry: Ever wonder if people try to talk to you when you're sleeping in your head.::Dr Dana Murray: Not really. Why don't you tell me a little more about it?::Charles Wallace Murry: It's okay. It's not paranoid schizophrenia.
Dr Jack Murray: Make a wish.::Meg Murry: I wish that I could be more like you. It's... it's just that I don't fit in my skin anymore. It feels all wrong and creepy. I'm stupid, like the twins said, and everyone hates me.::Dr Jack Murray: Oh, honey, you're not remotely stupid. And nobody hates you.::Meg Murry: I'm stupid.::Dr Jack Murray: You just take a moment and think. You do things in your own way... in your own time... and that's what I love about you so much. That's what makes you so special. And whenever you need me, I'll be right here.
Charles Wallace Murry: I should introduce you both to Mrs. Whatsit.::Dr Dana Murray: Mrs. Who?::Charles Wallace Murry: No, that's the other one.::Dr Dana Murray: What?::Charles Wallace Murry: No, Whatsit.::Dr Dana Murray: What Whatsit?::Charles Wallace Murry: I just told you.::Meg Murry: Uh, hang on. Who is Mrs. Whatsit? Is this the person that's been talking to you in your head? Is she one of your imaginary friends?::Charles Wallace Murry: No. She's just as real as you and me. Maybe even realer.
Meg Murry: How do you do it? I mean, how can you read us?::Charles Wallace Murry: I don't really know. Uh, you just tell me... just everything about you tells me.::Meg Murry: Why don't you read the twins?::Charles Wallace Murry: It's because they don't need me as much.
Meg Murry: You know what? I think I liked it better when you didn't talk.::Charles Wallace Murry: Calvin likes me talking to him.::Calvin O'Keefe: You know, I'm not sure why, but I kind of do.
Calvin O'Keefe: Your family, you're all... something... I don't know what.::Meg Murry: We're mostly just ordinary.::Calvin O'Keefe: No, I don't think so. Not as ordinary as you think.
Mrs. Whatsit: And remember, Dana, there is such a thing in the real world as a tesseract. And it works.::Meg Murry: What's a tesseract? What do you mean "it works"?
Mrs. Who: God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Saint Paul.::Meg Murry: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. Emily Dickenson.