Yelena Kondakova

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born March 30, 1957) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. She was the last Russian female in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2014.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

• Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-84 — Mission Specialist · Success · May 15, 1997 · 08:07 UTC
• Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-20 — Flight Engineer · Success · October 3, 1994