TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.

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    3 months ago

    It changes nothing to the thematic, but Mir was launched in 1986. The Soviet space station in 1982 was Salyut 7.