Svetlana Savitskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Svetlana Savitskaya

Soviet cosmonaut

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: astronaut, writer, military personnel, politician, test pilot, aircraft pilot, explorer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: ??????´?? ????´?????? ????´????; 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.