Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Savitskaya was a female
cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T7 in
1982, becoming the second woman in space 19 years after
Valentina Tereshkova. While on the
Salyut 7 space station on
July 25,
1984 Cosmonaut Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a
space walk.