On This Day July 25 1984 – Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya Became the First Woman to Walk in Space

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On This Day July 25 1984 – Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya Became the First Woman to Walk in Space.

On this day July 25 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya made history as the first woman to perform a spacewalk. While aboard the Salyut 7 space station, she spent over three hours outside the spacecraft conducting welding experiments in orbit.

Savitskaya had already become the second woman in space in 1982, following in the footsteps of Valentina Tereshkova. Her spacewalk in 1984 was a groundbreaking achievement not only for the Soviet space program but also for women in science and...
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