What is Svetlana Savitskaya?
{{Infobox astronaut | othername = Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya | image = Svetlana Savitskaya, 7 December 2018.jpg | caption = Savitskaya in the [[Moscow Kremlin]], December 2018 | type = Cosmonaut | nationality = [[Soviet people|Soviet]] / [[Russians|Russian]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1948|8|8|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | occupation = [[Flight engineer]], politician | selection = [[List of astronauts by selection#1980|1980]] (Female Group 2) | eva1 = 1 | eva2 = 3 hours 35 minutes | time = 19 days 17 hours 06 minutes | mission = [[Salyut 7]]-EP2 ([[Soyuz T-7]] up, [[Soyuz T-5]] down),<br/> Salyut 7-EP4 ([[Soyuz T-12]]) | insignia = <center>[[File:Salyut program insignia.svg|40px]]</center> | awards = [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] | signature = Svetlana Savitskaya Signature.svg |}} '''Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya''' ({{lang-ru|Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая}}; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet [[astronaut|cosmonaut]]. She flew aboard [[Soyuz T-7]] in 1982. She is the second woman in space. On her 1984 [[Soyuz T-12]] mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a [[spacewalk]].<ref>Umberto Cavallaro - [https://books.google.com/books?id=VCNBDgAAQBAJ&dq=6th+1970+FAI+World+Aerobatic+Championships&pg=PA11 ''Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space''], Springer, 2017. {{ISBN|3319340476}}</ref> In 1996, she was elected to the [[State Duma]] and was re-elected four times. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Savitskaya, Svetlana}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Cosmonauts]] [[Category:Russian aerospace engineers]] [[Category:Politicians from Moscow]] [[Category:Scientists from Moscow]] [[Category:Members of the State Duma]] {{bio-stub}}