Svetlana Savitskaya
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Who was Svetlana Savitskaya?
Soviet cosmonaut who became the second woman in space in 1982 and the first woman to perform a spacewalk. She flew two missions aboard Salyuz space stations and later served in the Russian State Duma.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Svetlana Savitskaya (CC BY-SA 4.0).