Yelena Kondakova, born March 30, 1957, is the third Russian woman in space. Her first trip into space was aboard Soyuz TM-20 as flight engineer to the Mir space station in October 1994. After five months, she returned to Earth in March 1995.
Her second trip into space was aboard Atlantis (STS-84) as mission specialist to Mir in May 1997.
She is married to fellow cosmonaut Valery Ryumin.
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