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