The 76-year-old remains the only woman to have ever made a solo flight in space. "The importance of this event is impossible to overestimate in the history of Russian and world space travel," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in a congratulatory message to Tereshkova.
State television celebrated by running documentaries about Ms Tereshkova's life while the former cosmonaut herself spent the day commemorating a new space museum in her native region of Yaroslavl.
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