Russia's only female cosmonaut to travel to space in September
Anna Kikina during a press conference dedicated to the experiment on ground simulation of the flight to the moon SIRIUS-17 in Moscow. Source
Russia's sole active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, is due to travel to the International Space Station in September on a Soyuz rocket, the national space agency said Thursday. The last cosmonaut woman to fly to space was Elena Serova, who spent 167 days aboard the ISS from September, 2014 to March, 2015. In October, Russia also sent to space an actress, Yulia Peresild, who spent 12 days on the ISS shooting scenes for a movie. Kikina, a 37-year-old engineer, will be only the fifth professional woman cosmonaut from Russia or the Soviet Union to fly to space. (By comparison, more than 50 American women have travelled to space.)
