Svetlana Savitskaya Svetlana Savitskaya Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born 8 August 1948) is a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 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. Svetlana Savitskaya was born in a privileged family. Her father, Yevgeniy Savitskiy, was a highly decorated fighter pilot during the Second World War, which later brought him to the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Air Defense. Without the
Anatoly Kartashov (cosmonaut) Anatoly Kartashov (cosmonaut) Anatoly Yakovlevich Kartashov (; 25 August 1932, Voronezh Oblast — 11 December 2005, Kiev) was a cosmonaut in the Soviet Vostok program. Anatoly Yakovlevich Kartashov was born to Yerfrosinya Timofeyevna and Yavok Prokofyevich Kartashov on August 25, 1932. Kartashov was born in the village of Pervoye Sadovoye in the Sadovoye district. He married and had two daughters with Yuliya Sergeyevna. Kartashov’s first daughter Ludmila was born in 1960 and his second daughter Svetlana was born in 1967. Kartashov would be unable to complete his secondary education until 1948 due to the war conflict in their region. Following