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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya | Soviet cosmonaut | Britannica ...  On Aug. 19, 1982, as part of the Soyuz T-7 mission to the Salyut 7 space ... any of several versions of Soviet /Russian manned spacecraft launched ... Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman in space when she served on ... Error when sending the email. ... Here we explore five of the most important and memorable.
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Svetlana Savitskaya - Wikipedia  Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya 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 ... Of the 57 Soviet/Russian spacewalkers through 2010, she is the only female. In 1995...
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Svetlana Savitskaya - Australian Science  Mar 12, 2013 ... Today I'm profiling cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space. ... You can find Phillip's wonderful series on women astronauts here.) Svetlana Savitskaya is a record breaking Russian aviator and cosmonaut. ... that the US was planning to send women into space within a few years.
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russian astronaut becomes first woman to walk in space  Jul 26, 1984 ... A Russian astronaut, Svetlana Savitskaya, became the first woman to walk in space today ... Here again, she is upstaging American plans. ... Miss Savitskaya, a test pilot, is the second Russian woman to fly in space. ... Miss Savistskaya made her first space flight in August 1982 aboard the Soyuz T-7, which,...
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Svetlana Savitskaya | womenandspace.com  Svetlana Savitskaya was the second woman to travel into space, and the first ... She travelled to the Soviet space station Salyut in August 1982. ... In 1982, Russian pilot and cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second ... more text here...
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ULSTER PIANIST, 26, WINS COMPETITION IN MOSCOW ...  Jul 4, 1986 ... Russian music fans who had packed the great hall of the Moscow Conservatory ... and himself a prize-winner in the original Tchaikovsky competition in 1958. ... The second and third prize-winners in piano were two Russian women, ... Mr. Kim, who began playing the violin at 6 and now studies at Juilliard,...
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Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs ...  Oct 12, 1986 ... Cold War: Reykjavik (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Shultz memoirs) ... There the decision makers face each other. .... The president proposed this in his July 25, 1986, letter to Gorbachev . ..... Gorbachev went on to address the critical subject of SDI and the ABM Treaty: We propose a compromise in which...
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History News Network | Lee Ruddin: The Diamond Queen ... A ...  Jul 6, 2012 ... Of the 96 State Visits until her Diamond Jubilee year, two particularly stand out: her October 1986 and October 1994 visits to China and the Russian Federation ... II became the first the British sovereign to step foot on Russian soil, she ... would have to be last year's State Visit to the Republic of Ireland,...
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Jeopary Question, ROYALTY - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: ROYALTY - In October 1994 she became the first British sovereign to make a state visit to Russia.
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Irina Press | Soviet athlete | Britannica.com  Soviet athlete who won two track-and-field Olympic gold medals during a ... She had the best time or distance in two of the five events, tallying 5,246 points and setting a world record. ... The women's competition featured the Press sisters, Irina and Tamara, of the Soviet Union. ... All in the Family: 8 Famous Sets of Siblings.
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First American Woman in Space | NASA  Jun 18, 2013 ... As one of the three mission specialists on the STS-7 mission, she ... This week in 1983, space shuttle Challenger and the STS-7 crew launched from ..... (Savitskaya flew a second time in 1984 and became the first woman to...
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Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov The Best | Skating - I'm in awe ...  Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, one of my all-time favorite pairs. ... 17 year old figure skater from london :) will be posting inspirational pictures about skating and my passion .... She and her teammates won a gold medal in Sochi for Team Ice Dance. .... Katarina Witt won gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 9 | 1967: Stalin's daughter defects to the West  Svetlana Stalin, daughter of the Soviet dictator, requests asylum at the United ... Svetlana is the only daughter of Joseph Stalin by his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva who committed suicide in 1932 when Svetlana was nine years old. ... She returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 and settled in Tbilisi, Georgia - her father's...
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Moscow, December 25 1991: the Last Day of the Soviet Union  Sep 12, 2011 ... In early December 1991, a Russian secretary named Evgenia Pateychuk ... the 1980s, is now widely agreed, even in Russia, to have sapped morale in the ... The Soviet leader's best moment was 1989, when he decided to let eastern ... case containing the nuclear codes from Gorbachev's team to Yeltsin's.
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The Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth with the Russian Czars  But the relations of England with Russia in the sixteenth century were not only commercial .... such great historical personalities, the letters represent two most different worlds of life ... was a letter of the czar sent to England or a letter of Elizabeth sent to the ...... a daughter, with English princes was considered. With that ques-.
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Svetlana Alliluyeva - Wikipedia  Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva later known as Lana Peters was the youngest child and only ... Churchill says Stalin "looked at me with a twinkle in his eye as if, so I thought, .... Years previously, Olgivanna's daughter had married Wright's chief ... In 1984, Alliluyeva returned to the Soviet Union, where she and her daughter...
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Cosmonaut Catches Up To Russian Revolution - tribunedigital ...  Sergei Krikalev has had a rough patch of luck in the last 10 months. ... March 26, 1992|By Vincent J. Schodolski, Chicago Tribune. ... So is nearly having a space station sold to the highest bidder while he still was using it. ... almost a year ago, Krikalev was at home in a city called Leningrad. ... Space crew set to return home
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First woman in space marks 50 years of her historic flight - Science  Jun 15, 2013 ... First woman in space marks 50 years of her historic flight ... of her flight, which came a little more than two years after the Soviet Union put the first man into orbit. ... ship on June 14, 1963, and Tereshkova followed him on June 16. ... A few months later she married cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev with Soviet...
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Sputnik 2 - Wikipedia  Sputnik 2 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on 3 November 1957, and the first to carry a living ... Sputnik 2 was launched into space only 32 days after its predecessor Sputnik 1. ... 3 to be finished was largely motivated by the desire the launch a satellite to orbit before the US.
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Women in space - Wikipedia  Russia, including the Soviet Union. The first woman in space was a Soviet cosmonaut. Valentina Tereshkova launched with the Vostok 6 mission on June 16, 1963. The first woman to walk in space was also a cosmonaut: Svetlana Savitskaya was on her second mission when she spaced-walked on July 17, 1984.
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Sports - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Katarina Witt In 1986 this East German beauty was called "the warmest thing to hit the Cold War since vodka" In 1988 she became the first figure skater since...