Svetlana Savitskaya, born August 8, 1948 in Moscow, is the second woman in space, the first woman to go into space twice, and the first woman to perform an EVA.
Her first trip into space was aboard Soyuz T-7, in August 1982 to Salyut 7. She stayed about 12 days on board and returned to Earth in Soyuz T-5.
Her second trip into space was aboard Soyuz T-12 to Salyut 7. She performed an EVA for about 3 hours and 35 minutes, conducting welding exercises outside Salyut 7. When NASA announced that Kathryn Sullivan would become the first woman to make an EVA, the Soviets assigned Savitskaya three weeks later to another short-term mission on Salyut 7. She conducted her spacewalk on July 25, 1984, just 3 months before Sullivan made her historic EVA. She returned to Earth July 29, after 12 more days in space.
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