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Yelena Kondakova

1957 - Today

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Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born 30 March 1957) is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994. She returned to Earth on 22 March 1995, after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yelena Kondakova is the 231st most popular astronaut (down from 207th in 2019), the 2,017th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,008th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Russian Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yelena Kondakova ranks 231 out of 556. Before her are Taylor Wang, Frank De Winne, Salizhan Sharipov, Reinhard Furrer, John Casper, and William B. Lenoir. After her are Piers Sellers, Robert S. Kimbrough, Ivan Bella, Sergei Avdeyev, Barbara Morgan, and Yuri Baturin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Yelena Kondakova ranks 345. Before her are Kenyu Horiuchi, Gediminas Vagnorius, Alan Ball, Sainkho Namtchylak, Pietro Paolo Virdis, and Andrew Cuomo. After her are Arkadi Ghukasyan, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, Mihailo Petrović, Lluís Homar, Pierre Moscovici, and Dimple Kapadia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yelena Kondakova ranks 2,017 out of 3,761. Before her are Vasily Andreyev (1861), José García (null), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Igor Novikov (1929), Alexander Kokorinov (1726), and Andrei Smirnov (1941). After her are Sergey Tereshchenko (1951), Grigory Landsberg (1890), Mikhail Suslin (1894), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Aleksandr Aksinin (1954), and Raisa Aronova (1920).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Yelena Kondakova ranks 54. Before her are Viktor Savinykh (1940), Vladimir Solovyov (1946), Oleg Atkov (1949), Yury Malyshev (1941), Gennady Sarafanov (1942), and Valery Korzun (1953). After her are Sergei Avdeyev (1956), Yuri Baturin (1949), Mikhail Tyurin (1960), Aleksandr Laveykin (1951), Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (1953), and Nikolai Budarin (1953).

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