Svetlana Savitskaya

Svetlana Savitskaya
MP
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	8 August 1948 (age 76); 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.