Just one year later, the time had come: on board #Vostok 6, Tereshkova took off on 16 June 1963 on a journey into space that lasted almost three days. It was the first space flight by a woman. She orbited the earth 48 times with her spaceship.
For her achievement, the cosmonaut was awarded the Order of Lenin and the honorary title "Heroine of the Soviet Union".Although her flight was a complete success for the Soviet space programme, Tereshkova was never used again.For almost 20 years, she remained the only woman with space experience.It was not until 1982 that Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to fly into space.






