ASTRONAUT

Svetlana Savitskaya

1948 - Today

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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming 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. She set several FAI world records as a pilot. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svetlana Savitskaya is the 28th most popular astronaut (down from 14th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Russia (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Astronaut.

Svetlana Savitskaya is most famous for being the first woman to go to space. She was a Russian cosmonaut and spent three days in space.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 28 out of 556. Before her are William R. Pogue, Anna Lee Fisher, Sigmund Jähn, Harrison Schmitt, Jack Lousma, and David M. Brown. After her are Gerald Carr, Owen Garriott, William C. McCool, Edgar Mitchell, Andriyan Nikolayev, and Jim Lovell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 83. Before her are Nicolae Timofti, Radomir Antić, Luis Galván, Brian Eno, William Gibson, and Bernard-Henri Lévy. After her are Edmund Kemper, Jayalalithaa, Ichirou Mizuki, Raymond Leo Burke, Charles Maung Bo, and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 370 out of 3,761. Before her are Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Jani Beg (1300), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Vera Menchik (1906), and Onfim (1250). After her are Yuri Oganessian (1933), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), and Alexander Ostrovsky (1823).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Svetlana Savitskaya ranks 6. Before her are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), and Gherman Titov (1935). After her are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Valeri Kubasov (1935), and Vladislav Volkov (1935).

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