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First mixed gender crew aboard space station (1982)

In 1982 the Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman in space, and the first woman to be on a space station.

In August of 1982,

Savitskaya launched on the Soyuz T-7 and spent over a week living aboard the Salyut 7 space station with a group of male cosmonauts.

The inclusion of a woman in the crew was used as an excuse to spread a lot of unfounded rumours of unprofessional behaviour on board in the press and public on Earth,

but it was also was a big leap on the path to gender equality in space.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Savitskaya

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Svetlana-Yevgenyevna-Savitskaya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7

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