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Women cosmonauts that made history in Russia’s quest to explore space

Four women have traveled into orbit in the history of Soviet and Russian space exploration

Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos is putting together a team of female cosmonauts to conduct flights into outer space, a source in the space industry said earlier. Only four women have traveled into orbit in the history of Soviet and Russian space exploration: Valentina Tereshkova (1963), Svetlana Savitskaya (1982, 1984), Yelena Kondakova (1994, 1997) and Yelena Serova (2014). Yelena Serova became the first Russian woman cosmonaut to set out on a long space flight in the past 20 years. Russian women in space - in photo gallery by TASS

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