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Svetlana Savitskaya: Twice in Space—The Second Soviet First

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    Umberto Cavallaro

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Cavallaro, U. (2017). Svetlana Savitskaya: Twice in Space—The Second Soviet First. In: Women Spacefarers. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34048-7_2

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