Svetlana Savitskaya

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Svetlána Evgén'evna Savítskaya; born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, USSR is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. She served two duty tours on the Salyut 7 space station, and on her second one became the first woman to perform a space walk on July 25, 1984. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. Of the 57 Soviet/Russian spacewalker through 2010, she is the only female. She is the daughter of Soviet military commander Yevgeniy Savitskiy. She is married, with one child.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5511390534
• ISBN13: 9785511390536
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"