Svetlana Savitskaya

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светлана Евгеньевна Савицкая; ), 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.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it (http://www.mywiseowl.com/index.php?title=Svetlana_Savitskaya&action=edit).

ru:Савицкая, Светлана Евгеньевна

Retrieved from "http://www.mywiseowl.com/articles/Svetlana_Savitskaya"

This page has been accessed 151 times. This page was last modified 16:40, 30 Oct 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).