Svetlana Savitskaya, a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut, made history in 1984 by becoming the first woman to conduct a spacewalk. She spent nearly three and a half hours outside the Salyut 7 space station, welding metals alongside her fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Learn about Savitskaya’s remarkable life and accomplishments, from her early passion for flying to her numerous world records and the asteroid named in her honor.