Svetlana Savitskaya
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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая); born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russia, was a Soviet female cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.
While on the Salyut 7 space station on July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes.
Categories: People stubs | 1948 births | Astronauts | Russian astronauts | Soviet Union cosmonauts | Russian people
