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Biography of Svetlana Savitskaya - Astronaut
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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (lang-ru|Светла ;́на Евге́нь&# 1077;вна Сави́цк&# 1072;я); born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russia, was a Soviet Union|Soviet female astronaut|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 ever to perform a Extra-vehicular activity|space walk. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. == External links and references== *http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/ savitskaya_svetlana.htm Space mission details *http://great.russian-women.net/Svetlana_Savitskay a.shtml Brief biography with photo of her space-walk USSR-bio-stub astronaut-stub
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