On this day in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova began her historic journey aboard Vostok 6. Newspapers across the #UK ran headlines on the 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut, who became the first woman in space. Over the next three days, she orbited Earth 48 times – a record that still stands as the only solo spaceflight ever completed by a woman. A year later, during her visit to Britain in 1964, Tereshkova received the British Interplanetary Society's Gold Medal in #London