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    Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew...
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    his lunar lander on Apollo 11 for 2 hours and 31 minutes. In 1984, Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk, conducting EVA outside...
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    Soyuz T-12 (category Svetlana Savitskaya)
    long-duration expedition Salyut 7 EO-3. During the mission, crew member Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to ever perform a spacewalk, and the potential...
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  • 1947 – Larry Wilcox, American actor, director, and producer 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and astronaut 1948 – Margaret Urban Walker, American...
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    Serbia Svetlana Roudenko, Russian-American mathematician Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Smirnova, Soviet and Russian actress Svetlana Smirnova...
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    fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in...
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    member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6. Savitskaya was given...
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    have flown on the Soviet/Russian program: Valentina Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya, Yelena Kondakova, Yelena Serova and Anna Kikina. Contents Top 0–9...
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    exploration, and it would be almost twenty years before another flew (Svetlana Savitskaya). By the end of the 1980s, women in space had become more common...
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    French and Indian cosmonauts). The station also saw two flights of Svetlana Savitskaya making her the second woman in space since Valentina Tereshkova first...
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    Spacewalk by a woman Svetlana Savitskaya Soyuz T-12 USSR 25 July 1984 Welding in space Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya Salyut 7, Soyuz T-12...
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    which included nine women in addition to four men. The women were: Svetlana Savitskaya, Galina Amelkina, Yelena Dobrokvashina, Larisa Pozharskaya, Tamara...
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    Concorde Brian Trubshaw, first British pilot to fly the Concorde Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet/Russian test pilot, cosmonaut and politician Toktar Aubakirov...
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    and as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, was elected to the State Duma in 1996...
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    cosmonauts was disbanded and a woman would not go to space again until Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. By 1976, Tereshkova was a colonel in the Soviet Air Forces...
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    opposition Labour leader David Lange. July 25 – Salyut 7: cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. July 28–August 12...
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    until August 1982, when the Soviet Union launched pilot-cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya. During the late 1970s, Glenn reportedly supported Space Shuttle...
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    codename Foxbat-C. Ye-133 Designation given to single MiG-25PU used by Svetlana Savitskaya to establish a number of women's speed and height records, starting...
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    Soyuz 15 Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14, Soyuz TM-3, Svetlana Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12 Aleksandr Serebrov (1944–2013) — Soyuz...
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    Strekalov (1980) Viktor Savinykh (1981) Anatoly Berezovoy (1982) Svetlana Savitskaya (1982) Aleksandr Serebrov (1982) Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1983) Vladimir...
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    Belarusian painter Silvestre Savitski, Russian-Colombian communist Svetlana Savitskaya (born 1948), Soviet aviator and cosmonaut Valentin Grigorievich Savitsky...
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    allowing women to join space crews. After the rules were changed, Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to enter space; she was also from the Soviet...
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  • 1982 First mixed gender crew aboard space station, and first woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, on space station. USSR Salyut 7 1982 First plants grown in space...
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    Yurchikhin (who returned from space with the torch), Roman Romanenko, Svetlana Savitskaya and Yelena Serova – and the flag was raised by Sergei Krikalev. The...
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    Soyuz T-5 (category Svetlana Savitskaya)
    The spacecraft returned to Earth successfully with Popov, Serebrov and Savitskaya, also called the "Dneiper crew". The Soyuz T-5 had been in space six weeks...
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  • per mission. Assist Commander and perform mission-specific duties Svetlana Savitskaya, the first female to perform a spacewalk Spaceflight Participant...
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  • T-11 (Salyut-7 space station). 1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya (Salyut 7 space station). 1986: First crew to visit two separate...
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  • massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. 1993 – Israel launches...
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    member of Class 77–08, which entered on 19 September 1976.  Russia - Svetlana Savitskaya is a Russian former jet aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard...
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    three previous female cosmonauts were Valentina Tereshkova (1963), Svetlana Savitskaya (1982 and 1984), and Yelena Kondakova (1994 and 1997). They represented...
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