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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.
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