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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman ...
First Russian woman to travel in two different spacecraft, Soyuz TM-20 and STS-84; both were on trips to Mir Space Station. First Russian woman to travel on the Space Shuttle. Soyuz TM-20 (Oct. 3, 1994) STS-84 (May 15, 1997) 27 Eileen Collins Nov. 19, 1956 United States: First female shuttle pilot and shuttle commander. STS-63 (Feb. 3, 1995)
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3]
Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule.
The last time NASA astronauts returned from space to water was on July 24, 1975, in the Pacific, the scene of most splashdowns, to end a joint U.S.-Soviet mission known as Apollo-Soyuz.
The mission was launched on 15 July 1975, with the Soyuz returning on 21 July and Apollo on 24 July. On 5 April, Soyuz 7K-T 39 aborted after the second and third stages failed to separate, with the crew pulling over 21 g on a ballistic reentry. On 19 April, the first Indian satellite, Aryabhatta, was launched on a Soviet Kosmos-3M.
MS-25 saw was the first launch of two women, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson from the United States and Maryna Vasileuskaya from Belarus, [7] aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. MS-25 also saw the launch of two people from Belarus, as the mission commander, Oleg Novitsky was born in Chervyen, when it was part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Mission numbers are of the form: "Soyuz MS-##". Within each given era, a mission number generally reflects the mission's chronological launch order, e.g. Soyuz TMA-12M was the twelfth mission of the TMA-M era, immediately preceded by Soyuz TMA-11M and immediately followed by Soyuz TMA-13M. Although there are exceptions to this (detailed below ...