Yelena Kondakova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yelena Kondakova

Russian cosmonaut

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1957

Place of Birth: Mytishchi, Russia

Profession: astronaut, engineer, politician

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: ????? ???????????? ??????ó??; born March 30, 1957) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight.
Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994.
She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station.
Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997.
She was the last Russian female in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2014.