Thursday, September 25, 2014

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Yelena Serova




Yelena Serova will be the first female cosmonaut in over 17 years to travel into space. Yelena Kondakova was the last female cosmonaut to make the trek, she flew aboard sts-84 in 1997. This will be Serova's first trip to space and will mark only the 4th female cosmonaut to do so. The Previous Female cosmonauts are Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya . Yelena Serova will blast off tomorrow Sep. 26th aboard TMA-14M along with Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Aleksandr Samokutyayev and NASA astronaut Barry E. Wilmore. The crew will linkup with the 3 existing crew members aboard the ISS.