Geek Fact for July 25th

By Judy Novotny / 07/25/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1984, Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

Her spacewalk lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes. Of the sixty Soviet/Russian space walkers, she is the only woman.

Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Savitskaya.

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