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'''Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova''' ({{lang-ru|Елена Владимировна Кондакóва}}; born March 30, 1957) was the third [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]/Russian female [[cosmonaut]] to travel to [[outer space|space]] and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.space-travel.com/reports/The_Story_Of_Women_In_Space_999.html|title=The Story Of Women In Space|website=www.space-travel.com}}</ref> Her first trip into space was on [[Soyuz TM-20]] on October 4, 1994. She returned to [[Earth]] on March 22, 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 female in space until her successor cosmonaut [[Elena Serova]] flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2014.
==Personal==
Kondakova was born in [[Mytishchi]] in the [[Moscow]] Region of Russia and is married to fellow cosmonaut [[Valeri Ryumin]]. She was selected as a [[cosmonaut]] candidate in 1989. Prior to that, she worked as an engineer for [[Energia (corporation)]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yelena-Kondakova|title=Yelena Kondakova {{!}} Russian cosmonaut|last=Gregersen|first=Erik|date=2011-09-16|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-26|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref>
Since 1999, Kondakova has served as a deputy in the [[Duma]], the lower house of the Russian [[parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/kondakova_yelena.htm|title=Cosmonaut Biography: Yelena Kondakova|first=Joachim|last=Becker|website=www.spacefacts.de}}</ref>
==Honors==
* [[Hero of the Russian Federation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kondakov.html|title=Cosmonaut Bio: E. Kondakova 7/97|website=www.jsc.nasa.gov}}</ref>
==See also==
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