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Personal: Female, unmarried. Born in Leningrad, Leningrad, Russia. Academy of Sciences Graduated from Leningrad Mechanical Institute with a candidate of technical science degree, 1980 Scientist, Academy of Sciences USSR. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Female Group - 1980. Inactive Entered space service: 9 March 1983. Left space service: 15 December 1994. Research scientist and professor at Leningrad Mechanical Institute and than, through 1994, for the Baltic Technical State University.
Ivanova Chronology 1 January 1980 - Female Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The training group was selected for planned female missions to upstage any American female 'first in space' missions aboard the space shuttle. Soviet women would make the first female spacewalk, and the first all-female crew was planned. 17 July 1984 - Soyuz T-12. Docked with Salyut 7. Transported a crew comprising ship's commander V A Dzhanibekov, flight engineer S E Savitskaya and cosmonaut-research I P Volk to the Salyut-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. 1986 September - Soyuz T-15C (cancelled). Cancelled all-female flight to be launched on International Woman's Day, to have docked with Mir or Salyut 7. Breakdown of Salyut 7, exhaustion of stock of Soyuz T spacecraft, and official resistance led to cancellation of the mission. Officially cancelled due to birth of Savitskaya's baby. No female cosmonauts would be in training again until a decade later. Bibliography:
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