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Svetlana Savitskaya performed her spacewalk on the 25th of July 1984, outside the Salyut 7 space station during the Soyuz T-12 mission. The extravehicular activity lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes, during which she and Commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov tested the Universal Hand Tool (URI).
Svetlana Savitskaya flew to space twice. Her first flight was aboard Soyuz T-7 in August 1982, making her the second woman in space. Her second flight was aboard Soyuz T-12 in July 1984, when she became the first woman to spacewalk.
Savitskaya set multiple FAI world records, including speed over 15/25 kilometers at 2,683.45 km/h in a MiG-25 in 1975, altitude in horizontal flight at 21,209.9 meters in 1977, and several time-to-climb records in MiG-21 and MiG-25 aircraft. She also held records for three stratosphere parachute jumps and fifteen jumps from jet planes.
Savitskaya's father, Yevgeny Savitsky, was a highly decorated Soviet fighter pilot during the Second World War. He later rose to the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Air Defense.
The all-female Soyuz mission, which Savitskaya was set to command, was canceled due to several compounding problems: Salyut 7 lost radio contact in February 1985, a subsequent mission was cut short by the illness of commander Vladimir Vasyutin in November 1985, and too few Soyuz spacecraft were available following two failed missions in 1983. A later Mir option was not pursued because of Savitskaya's pregnancy.
Savitskaya was elected a people's deputy of the USSR in 1989 and a people's deputy of Russia in 1990. In 1996 she was elected to the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and has been re-elected four times. She currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Committee on Defence.