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
The Cosmonaut trip to the Moon). After the reading of "Poetics for Cosmonauts", the script changed to its present form. The preproduction for the short film started in October–November 2008. In January 2009, the project underwent its most radical changes: the film went from being a short film released and produced in a traditional way, to a feature-length film funded through Crowdfunding and released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Inspired by productions such as "A Swarm of Angels" and "Artemis Eternal", "The Cosmonaut" is the first Spanish feature film that makes use of the crowdfunding financing method. There were