A day like today: Svetlana Savitskaya

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One day, a father found a knife in his daughter's school bag that was barely 16 years old; When he asked what this was about, his daughter told him the whole truth: "I used this knife once in an emergency case and that's why I'm alive, I hope I don't have to use it anymore, but if I need it I will do it all as many times as necessary, look at it well father, it's my paratrooper knife. "

His father's name was Yevgeni Stavisky, a senior commander of the air defense forces, a pilot during World War II and twice a hero of the USSR.

The young woman was Svetlana Savitskaya, who had started her secret career as a pilot and paratrooper, and at 16 she was a free jump coach and was approaching 500 jumps.

Svetlana had not only wanted to imitate her father, she was also a great swimmer, skater and athlete of national importance, a music student and had been rejected as a pilot instructor for being too young.

But Svetlana wanted more in life: at age 17, with the help of his father, from a stratospheric height, he launched himself in free flight, plunged 14 kilometers and opened his parachute when he was just 500 meters to touch the ground .

After all these exploits, she followed her natural course, became a cosmonaut, and on the second flight, a day like today, July 25, 1984, she became the first woman to make a spacewalk.

Svetlana Savitskaya today is remembering that spacewalk at 40 thousand kilometers per hour, there, in the heights and reminds us of the greatness of human achievements when they are supported by tenacity, joy and hope.

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photo of the walk of Svetlana, which lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes