The Life of Svitlana Savika

Svetlana was born in a flying family. Her father was a famous meritorious pilot who participated in the Soviet Patriotic War, a legendary flying dragon, a two-time Soviet hero and marshal of the Soviet Air Force, yevgeny Jakovljevic Savage. Mother is an educator. Her father's career as a pilot and her mother's good education had a profound influence on Savika. She was interested in rocket technology since she was a child and admired Gagarin very much.

Perhaps due to genetic factors and family influence, Svetlana likes flying since she was a child and has an indissoluble bond with the sky. Savika began to practice skydiving from middle school. She wants to be a pilot. At the beginning, she secretly participated in the flight training of the aviation club behind her parents' backs. Later, when her father found out, she encouraged her daughter to realize her dream instead of forbidding her. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, savage completed 450 parachutes and set three world parachuting records. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, she parachuted from 46,750 feet and landed 8 miles before opening her parachute-the best result at that time. Savika began to receive pilot training. In her sophomore year, she was able to fly Jacques 18. 197 1 Graduated from the Central Flight Technology School affiliated to the All-Soviet Association for Supporting Volunteers of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and stayed there as a flight instructor after graduation. Excellent quality, fighting spirit and well-organized national defense sports make Svetlana stand out among pilots. By the time she was 24 years old, Savika had obtained permission to fly 20 different types of aircraft, including MiG -2 1, and her driving speed was 1, 667 mph.

The fastest flying woman

In the 1970s, the competition between the two aviation powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, was fierce. In order to maintain the leading position in the aviation field, the flight records of the Soviet Union and the United States have been constantly broken, and new world records have been constantly produced. As one of the few female pilots in the Soviet Union, Svetlana bravely challenged the world flight record-the hereditary territory of men. 1970, Svetlana won the world champion of advanced stunt performance of piston plane. 1975, she broke the world record held by American female pilot Zachary Coughlin. In August 196 1 distance, in April 1963 distance and in May 1964 distance, Kao Kuilin flew the fastest speed of 2300 km/h. This record has been kept for 1 1 year. 1In June, 1975, Svetlana flew E- 133 (an improved version of MIG -25) at a high speed of 2,683 km/h, which exceeded Coughlin's record.

The record-breaking flight took only half an hour from takeoff to landing; However, the time for the plane to pass through the speed measuring section is only a few seconds. In order to get good grades in these few seconds, Svetlana has been training hard for months and flying test again and again. At an altitude of 20 thousand meters, the 200-meter-wide air corridor is like a narrow and thin belt, which is difficult to measure when the plane passes at high speed. Alexander Fedov, a famous meritorious test pilot and Soviet hero, guided Svei Trana to hit the world record. Fedov said, "... she is not only an excellent pilot, but also an excellent aviation engineer." She is studious, smart and diligent, and she can always master everything she wants to learn quickly. Svetlana flew at more than twice the speed of sound, not only successfully passing the sound barrier, but also overcoming the thermal barrier. " '

The tallest female pilot.

1976, Savika graduated from the test pilot school and became a test pilot of the famous Jakovleff Aircraft Design Bureau. From 65438 to 0977, Svetlana set another world record for this country. As a test pilot of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the Soviet Union, she flew E- 133 to an altitude of 2 1209.90 meters, setting a world record for the maximum altitude of horizontal flight, which has been maintained to this day.

Svetlana flew over more than 20 types of aircraft, flying 1.500 hours, and set a flight record of 1.8 by flying a jet. In addition, Svetlana was an outstanding skydiver in the former Soviet Union, who broke three stratospheric collective skydiving records. By 1980, savage card has mastered the flying skills of more than 20 types of aircraft.

Step into the endless sea of stars

For Svetlana, the sky doesn't seem big enough to display all her talents. From 1980, she was selected and transferred to the Soviet astronaut squadron, and began to hit the space world record. Before Svetlana's first space flight, the speed record of women driving spacecraft belonged to American female astronaut Inshin Sullivan, with a score of 28,582 kilometers per hour. 1On April 29th, 980, Sullivan flew out of this speed in the final stage of the space shuttle flight. However, experts believe that because the orbit of Soyuz is lower than that of the United States, Svetlana actually surpassed the space flight speed record set by American female astronauts twice. These two flights are on August 27th, 1982. On July 28th, the spacecraft were Soyuz TM-7 and 1984, and the spacecraft were Soyuz TM- 12.

Svetlana set a new space record in her last space flight-becoming the first woman to walk in space. While working as a random engineer on Soyuz T- 12, she went to Space Station 7 to salute, stepped out of the spaceship and conducted a new universal hand tool experiment in space. This tool is specially used for astronauts to complete complex technical operations outside the spacecraft or space station. Svetlana's two space flights totaled 19 days and nights 17 hours and 7 minutes. EVA, her extravehicular activity, took place 19 years after astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov left the orbiting spacecraft for the first time, and defeated American astronaut Catherine Sullivan who walked out of the cabin within three months.

Savika told reporters that spacewalking is very dangerous, and it is necessary to prevent high and low temperature and X-ray radiation, especially to prevent molten metal droplets from dripping on the spacesuit during welding, because if a small hole is burned in the spacesuit, it will cause pressure loss and astronauts will die.

1On July 25th, 984, the great and arduous moment of women's spacewalk finally arrived. Savika is in the front, and Commander Zani Bykov is in the back. They went into space from the passage module and carefully brought the common hand tools to the platform outside the orbital station. Savika stood on a special pedal and fixed her feet on it. She took a tool with a volume of 400 mm× 450 mm× 500 mm and began to cut a metal sample fixed on the sample plate, and then welded the two metal plates together. At the same time, Zani Bekov took all this with a video camera and sent it to the ground. Savacka's movements are skillful and accurate. She also reports to the ground from time to time: "I started working." "I have turned on the power, the tool started, and the slit is uneven, but it looks good." "Now for the second operation, start the button and weld the metal." "I tried the third operation again. There were spots on the welded sample, and I began to flatten it. " Finally, savage card announced: "I have drawn the first template with metal, which looks very beautiful."

She and her companion Zani Bekov worked in space for 3 hours and 39 minutes. Savika lost 3 kilograms in this process, which shows the hardships of spacewalking. Speaking of this, Savika humorously told reporters that women are not worse than men at all, and even surpass men in some aspects. For example, women are patient and can bear monotonous work.

1On July 29th, 984, Savikaya, the world's first female astronaut who walked in space, returned to the ground safely. Shortly thereafter, she married a pilot and gave birth to a child in June 1986, when she was 38 years old.