The first woman spacewalker
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya is the first woman to perform an EVA, which she did in August 1982 as part of the Soyuz T-12 mission. During her historic 3 hour and 35 minute spacewalk, Savitskaya performed some welding, becoming the first person in history to do so in space. Working alongside cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya performed metal spraying and ran tests of a new multipurpose tool.
