Yevgeniy Savitskiy Yevgeniy Savitskiy Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Savitzky (; , Novorossiysk, Black Sea Governorate — 6 April 1990) was a World War II fighter ace, 22 individual and 2 group victories Commanding General of Aviation of the Air Defense Forces of the Country, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation. The asteroid 4303 Savitskij is named for him. His daughter, Svetlana Savitskaya became a Soviet cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova and in 1984, the first woman ever to fly to space twice and to perform a
Scott E. Parazynski the flight engineer (MS2) during the flight, and was also the navigator during the Mir rendezvous. Parazynski (EV1) and Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov performed a 5-hour, 1 minute spacewalk during which they retrieved four experiment packages first deployed during the STS-76 Shuttle-Mir docking mission. They also deployed the Spektr Solar Array Cap, which was designed to be used in a future Mir spacewalk to seal a leak in the Spektr module's damaged hull. Other objectives of EVA included the evaluation of common EVA tools to be used by astronauts wearing either Russian or American-made spacesuits, and a systems flight test