Svetlana Savitskaya is also a member of the Coordination council presidium of the National Patriotic Union. Savitskaya was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. The asteroid 4118 Sveta is named after her. 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
The Age of Pioneers The Age of Pioneers The Age of Pioneers (, lit. "Time of the first ones"), also known as Spacewalk, is a Russian historical drama film about cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk. Leonov himself served as a consultant for the film. "The Age of Pioneers" was directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Yevgeny Mironov, the latter also starred in the leading role. "The Age of Pioneers" was released on April 6, 2017, to widespread critical praise in Russia. The movie grossed RUB 561 million in Russia against a 400 million budget, and