Svetlana Savitskaya

Svetlana Savitskaya MP
Светлана Савицкая
Savitskaya in 2018
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 December 2003
Member of the State Duma for Moscow Oblast
In office 17 January 1996 – 29 December 2003
Preceded by	constituency established
Succeeded by	Dmitry Sablin
Constituency	Sergiyev Posad (No. 113)
Personal details
Born	(1948-08-08) 8 August 1948 (age 75) Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Political party	CPRF (from 1993) CPSU (until 1991)
Spouse	Viktor Khatkovsky
Children	1
Parents	Yevgeny Savitsky (father) Lydia Savitskaya (mother)
Education	Central United Flight Technical School Moscow Aviation Institute Flight Research Institute of the Ministry of Aviation Industry Moscow Higher Technical School (DPhil)
Occupation	flight engineer aviator flight instructor politician
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union (2)
Signature
Space career
Cosmonaut (retired)
Rank	Major
Time in space	19 days 17 hours 6 minutes
Selection	1980 (Female Group 2)
Total EVAs	1
Total EVA time	3 hours 35 minutes
Missions	Soyuz T-7/Soyuz T-5 (Salyut 7 - EP2) Soyuz T-12 (Salyut 7 - EP4)
Mission insignia
Svetlana Savitskaya's voice Echo of Moscow, recorded 18 January 2007

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

She set several FAI world records as a pilot.