Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut. She flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982. She is the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.[1] In 1996, she was elected to the State Duma and was re-elected four times.
Svetlana Savitskaya | |
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 Savitskaya in the Moscow Kremlin, December 2018 | |
| Born | 8 August 1948 |
| Nationality | Soviet / Russian |
| Other names | Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya |
| Occupation | Flight engineer, politician |
| Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Space career | |
| Cosmonaut | |
Time in space | 19 days 17 hours 06 minutes |
| Selection | 1980 (Female Group 2) |
Total EVAs | 1 |
Total EVA time | 3 hours 35 minutes |
| Missions | Salyut 7-EP2 (Soyuz T-7 up, Soyuz T-5 down), Salyut 7-EP4 (Soyuz T-12) |
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References
- Umberto Cavallaro - Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space, Springer, 2017. ISBN 3319340476
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