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Savitskaya

British  
/ sæˈvɪtskaɪə /

noun

  1. Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)

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Savitskaya met her husband while they were in the Russian army.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Anastasia Savitskaya was from a city in southwestern Russia.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Svetlana Savitskaya was the second female cosmonaut in 1982.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2021

The giant leap for womankind took place almost 35 years after Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019

It was 1982, and research cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was taking an eight-day journey into space along with two male cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz T-7.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

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