Ivanova

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Ivanova

Yekaterina Aleksandrowna Ivanova Status: Inactive. Trained as: Cosmonaut. Profession: Scientist. Sex: Female. Marital Status: Single. Birth Date: 03 October 1949. Birth City: Leningrad. Birth State: Leningrad. Birth Country: Russia. Nationality: Russian. Affiliation: Scientist, Academy of Sciences USSR. Group: 1980 Female Group. Detachment: FPb. Date Selected: 09 March 1983. Date Departed: 31 March 1987. Number of Flights: 0. Comments: .

Flight Log

Soyuz T-12 - - 1984 Jul 17 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz T-12.
Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Recovered July 29, 1984 12:55 GMT.
Soyuz T-15C - - 1986 September - Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew.
To have docked with Mir. Cancelled all-female flight to be launched on International Woman's Day. Breakdown of Salyut 7, exhaustion of stock of Soyuz T spacecraft, and official resistance led to cancellation of the mission. Officially cancelled due to birth of Savitskaya's baby. No female cosmonauts would be in training again until a decade later.

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