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
Anatoly Kartashov (cosmonaut) men who were selected as cosmonauts. Anatoly Kartashov, though qualified, was never selected to go into space due to health reasons. Kartashov had initially been trained to be selected as a cosmonaut to go in one of the Vostok missions. It is reported that Yuri Gagarin, one of the men who would be selected for a Vostok mission, thought that Karstashov was one of the best men in training. 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