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"Svetlana Savitskaya in Outer Space" by Vladimir Dzhanibekov, taken on 25 July 1984 during the Soyuz-12 flight. Honourable mention in the Arts and Sciences category, 1984.

Some of the most dramatic images submitted throughout the history of the World Press Photo Contest

Source: ITAR-TASS

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This photo, taken during the Soyuz T-12 mission to Salyut 7, depicts the first spacewalk ever made by a woman. Savitskaya was joined by Commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Research Cosmonaut Igor Volk, who was aboard in order to gain flight experience—Volk was to be the commander of the first manned Buran flight, and flight doctrine maintained that every flight had to have at least one spaceflight veteran.

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“Even among our space-colleagues there were men wondering why we needed to weld and said that we might burn each other`s space suits or the spaceship`s exterior. It is a great responsibility, If I listen to their concerns, then people could have said that surely it was not something women should do. But after my spaceflight, everyone had to shut up.”

 Svetlana Savitskaya - first woman to walk in space.