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  Svetlana Savitskaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
While on the Salyut 7 space station on July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk.
Svetlana Applications Notes Application notes on the care and feeding of Svetlana tubes, mostly for high power service.
Raznatovic, Svetlana Ceca Sluzbena prezentacija sa biografijom pevacice, vestima, slikama i chatom.
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 Space Today Online -- Man In Space Firsts -- table of contents
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya flew to the Salyut 7 space station August 19, 1982.
Svetlana Savitskaya flew to the Salyut 7 space station in August 1982 and again in July 1984.
Svetlana Savitskaya and Vladimir Dzhanibekov went outside the space station Salyut 7 for 3.5 hours in July 1984.
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 tass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Svetlana Savitskaya is a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR She has established 18 world records in aviation and was absolute world champion in aerobatics in 1970.
Svetlana Savitskaya joined the CPSU in 1975 She is a member of the Central Committee of the VLKSM.
Svetlana grew up like any other girl: on her parents' insistence she took up music, English and swimming in addition to school classes, and was fond of reading.
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 Svetlana Savitskaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Savitskaya was appointed Chief Designer at Energiya (1987) and became a member of the Duma in 1989.
Svetlana Savitskaya was born on August 8, 1948, in Moscow.
When Svetlana became a cosmonaut, in 1980, she was the 53rd to be associated with Energiya.
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 The Voice of Russia (People and events: Russia in Personalities)
Svetlana became a world champion in flying a plane and parachute jumping, a testpilot and eventually a cosmonaut.
Svetlana Savitskaya joined the cosmonaut team in 1980 and on August 19th 1982 after extensive training she and the cosmonauts Alexander Serebrov and Leonid Popov headed into space on board “Salyut T-7” spaceship.
Later on Savitskaya described her first flight: “After the liftoff command the carrier grumbled, shuddered and it became clear that the rocket driven into motion by the power of its engines was gradually taking off.
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 The New Mexico Museum of Space History - Inductee - Svetlana Y. Savitskaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Svetlana Savitskaya was chosen to be part of the cosmonaut 1980 Female Group 2 on July 30 of that year.
Savitskaya continued putting her name in the record books, becoming the second woman in space on August 19, 1982.
Savitskaya became the Deputy to the Chief Designer at Energiya in 1987, and a member of Parliament in 1989.
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 Savitskaya, Svetlana Yevgeniyena - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Savitskaya, Svetlana Yevgeniyena
On her second mission, she became the first woman to make a space walk, which lasted 3 hours 35 minutes.
Savitskaya was selected as a cosmonaut in 1980.
In 1989 she became a member of the Soviet parliament, and in 1993 she retired as a cosmonaut.
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 Top Story - Duma Deputy Quibbles Over Gref Wedding - The St. Petersburg Times. General news from St.Petersburg and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Instead, Savitskaya insisted, it was the epitome of arrogance from a politician she suspects used his position to gain access to a state treasure and lavished an unknown sum on the day's festivities, estimated by one observer to have cost in the region of $500,000.
Savitskaya, a former cosmonaut turned hard-line Communist deputy, asked the Duma's Culture Committee on Wednesday to investigate Gref's use of the Grand Palace at the Peterhof museum, once the summer residence of Peter the Great, for his wedding ceremony.
She said that Communist deputies had received a number of complaints from voters about the extravagance of the wedding, which came at a time as the government was moving to cut benefits.
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 Svetlana Savitskaya (1948-), Pioneer Cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya's career as a cosmonaut owed much to not only her natural ability but the influence of her father.
Her later command of an all-female crew to Salyut 7 on the occasion of International Woman's Day was cancelled due to problems with the space station and a limited number of Soyuz T spacecraft available for docking with the station.
Svetlana is married to Viktor Khatkovsky, an engineer and pilot at the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/savitskaya.html   (949 words)

  
 Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), Pioneer Cosmonaut
Another was Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya, who flew two short duration missions to Salyut 7: in 1982, and 1984.
Savitskaya retired from her active cosmonaut's duty in 1993.
Svetlana Savitskaya became the second Russian woman in space in 1982 and 1984.
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 Chapter 5
Savitskaya was flown primarily as a propaganda stunt in response to plans of NASA to fly female astronauts on the shuttle beginning the next June.
Savitskaya's mission was to perform an EVA as a propaganda stunt that gave the Soviets another space first (NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan would perform satellite refueling tests, during an EVA on STS 41-G, in November 1984).
Soon after the flight, at the IAF Congress, Savitskaya said that she was qualified to fly the Soyuz T. After the mission, Savitskaya said that ten women were currently in cosmonaut training at Star City.
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 International Aviation Womens Association - Members' Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Svetlana was born in 1948 in Moscow and is the daughter of an airforce pilot.
In 1972 Svetlana graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute earning her diploma on the subject of the "orbital aircraft of multiple use." At the same time she began flying jet airplanes opening up a new page of speed and altitude world records for women pilots.
Savitskaya is a permanent honorary member of IAWA by Board resolution which decreed that all IAWA conference speakers from 1989 through 1993 be so honored.
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 Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Savitskaya is a cosmonaut who was born on August 8, 1948, in Moscow.
In 1982, Savitskaya became the second woman in space when she flew aboard Soyuz T-7.
Savitskaya made her second flight aboard the Salyut 7 space station in 1984.
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 Encyclopedia: Soyuz T-7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Svetlana Yevgeniyena Savitskaya - first woman to perform a space-walk Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian:); born August 8, 1948, in Moscow, Russia, was a Soviet female cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.
The Soyuz-T 7 crew (code name Dnieper) included Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman to visit space in 20 years.
She was given the orbital module of Soyuz-T 7 for privacy.
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 NPR : Timeline: Women in Space
Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the second woman in space, serving on a Soyuz mission to dock with the Salyut 7 space station.
However, she is perhaps best known for her second Soyuz mission, in 1984, in which she became the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.
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 Svetlana Savitskaya Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Communists Seek Probe into Economy Minister’s Pompous Wedding - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Duma deputy Svetlana Savitskaya told Gazeta.Ru that the voters she represents have written to her to express their indignation at a supposedly humble-salaried civil servant’s ability to throw such lavish celebrations.
Who paid for the ceremony and to what amount?” She said that, as far as she knows, the son of St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko recently held his wedding at the same location and expressed her belief that flaunting prosperity and taking advantage of rank is immoral and unethical.
Savitskaya, however, is prepared to take her quest for truth as far as she can — if her request for a probe is declined, she intends to address the Culture Ministry.
www.mosnews.com /news/2004/05/12/gref_weding.shtml   (684 words)

  
 Sally Ride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles CA) was the first American woman to fly into outer space.
Only two other women preceded her: Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982), both from the former Soviet Union.
Ride was born in Encino, Los Angeles, California and went to high school at Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles (now Harvard-Westlake School).
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 Savitskaya, Svetlana Y. --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman in space when she served on the 1982 Soyuz T-7 Earth orbital and docking mission with Leonid Popov and Aleksandr Serebrov (see Space Travel).
She became the first woman to walk in space during a 1984 Soyuz T-12 orbital and docking mission with Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Igor Volk.
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 Does Mars need women? Russians say no - Space News - MSNBC.com
Savitskaya, daughter of the Soviet Air Force's deputy commander, was then dismissed from the program together with her backup women cosmonauts.
But in early 1984, when NASA announced plans for one of its women astronauts to make a 3½-hour spacewalk later that year, Savitskaya and her colleagues were called back to active duty.
The Soviets toyed with the idea of launching Savitskaya and two other women on an all-woman Soyuz mission to the Salyut 7 space mission in 1985, but political winds were shifting in Moscow, and “space spectacles” lost favor.
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 Savitskaya
Carried Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific and technical research and experiments.
Soyuz T-5 landed at 15:04 GMT with the crew of Popov, Savitskaya and Serebrov aboard.
Breakdown of Salyut 7, exhaustion of stock of Soyuz T spacecraft, and official resistance led to cancellation of the mission.
www.astronautix.com /astros/savskaya.htm   (877 words)

  
 Russia's only female cosmonaut all dressed up but nowhere to go
An aviation aficionado, she joined an aeronautic club when she was 20, learning to pilot planes and to parachute jump.
The 1982 space flight of the Soviet Union's second female cosmonaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, fanned her ambitions further still.
Russia has sent three women to space so far -- first Tereshkova, then Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982 and 1984, and finally Yelena Kondakova, whose first mission took her to the Mir space station in 1994-1995 and second brought her aboard a US shuttle in 1997.
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 Svetlana Savitskaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian : Светлана Евгеньевна Савицкая;) born August 8 1948 in Moscow Russia was a Soviet female cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T7 in 1982 becoming the second woman in space 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova.
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 King of Zembla
Similarly, there were allegations that Russia claimed a space first in 1982 when Svetlana Savitskaya shared the Salyut 7 space station with two Russian male colleagues.
But there is no independent confirmation of this; instead Savitskaya, who was the second woman in space, and the first to carry out a space walk, says in her memoirs that the two male cosmonauts "welcomed me at the hatch with an apron".
2.) The experiment was abandoned when Svetlana and her partner Yuri, less than a second after achieving the first simultaneous climax in zero-gee, slammed into opposite bulkheads and were knocked unconscious.
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 Russian Life Online
Abstract: Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Svitskaya made history when they were the first woman in space and first woman to walk in space, respectfully.
The one thing that could not be denied her was the fact that she became the first woman in the world to fly in space.
The next Soviet woman in space was Svetlana Savitskaya who flew in 1982 and 1984.
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 Encyclopedia: Svetlana Savitskaya
U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit.
Crew Launched: Leonid Popov (3) Aleksandr Serebrov (1) Svetlana Savitskaya (1) Landed: Anatoli Berezovoy (1) Valentin Lebedev (2) (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: ; born March 6, 1937), Soviet cosmonaut, flew on Vostok 6 in 1963 to become the first woman in space.
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