Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994. She returned to Earth on 22 March 1995, after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. She was the last Russian woman in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2014.
Kondakova in 1997
STS-84 was a crewed spaceflight mission by Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Mir viewed from the flight deck of Atlantis
Left to right – Seated: Linenger, Precourt, Foale; Standing: Clervoy, Collins, Lu, Kondakova, NoriegaSpace Shuttle program← STS-83 (83)STS-94 (85) →
Comet Hale–Bopp imaged by a shuttle crew member
Atlantis lands at the end of the STS-84 mission.