Word: rakesh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the mission, Salyut linked twice with Soyuz "ferries" that carried two visiting crews up and then back down again. The visitors chalked up a few firsts of their own. One craft, launched in April, carried the first Indian space traveler, Rakesh Sharma, who performed yoga exercises on board. A July ship brought Svetlana Savitskaya, who had been aloft in 1982 and this time became the first woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty...