Yelena Kondakova is the third Soviet or Russian woman to fly in space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. She launched on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994, and spent five months aboard the Mir space station before returning in March 1995. Her second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-84 in May 1997, and she remained the last Russian woman in space until Yelena Serova flew in 2014.
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1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
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2. Yelena Kondakova (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Yelena Kondakova lead section infobox, selection field (w-bbfill-edspace5-0927)View the Source 3. Yelena Kondakova (Q255764, Wikidata)
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1957
4. The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Launch Library 2 astronaut list, records 101 to 200
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"name": "Yelena Kondakova" ... "flights_count": 2
5. Wikipedia: Yelena Kondakova
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Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997.
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Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born 30 March 1957) is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight.
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Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994.
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