#Svetlana Savitskaya

[valkyries-things]

SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA // AVIATOR

“She is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk. She set several FAI world records as a pilot.”

[astaraels]

fun fact of the day, I learned that Svet shares a name and patronymic with the second woman ever to go to space and the first woman ever to perform a spacewalk (Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya) so that's pretty fucking cool @hayscodings

[doyouevenknowwhatshappening]

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. She pioneered the way for American women in space and still does today, twenty-two years after she passed.

Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

NASA was still adjusting to female astronauts, and engineers had asked Ride to assist them in developing a "space makeup kit", assuming it would be something a woman would want on board.

They also infamously suggested providing Ride with a supply of 100 tampons for the six-day mission

"Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way." -Sally Ride

On July 1, 1989, Ride became a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space), part of the university's Scripps Institution of OceanographyRide and O'Shaughnessy, along with three colleagues, founded Sally Ride Science in 2001 as a science education company. When Ride died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, O’Shaughnessy wrote Ride’s obituary for the company’s website.

The obituary said Ride was survived by “Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years,” revealing their relationship to the public for the first time. Ride had ensured that O'Shaughnessy would inherit her estate when she drew up her will in 1992. They registered their domestic partnership on August 15, 2011.

Ride and O'Shaughnessy, along with three colleagues, founded Sally Ride Science in 2001 as a science education company. When Ride died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, O’Shaughnessy wrote Ride’s obituary for the company’s website.

[sterlingarcher23]

A space walk....cosmic love.

(fair warning that this can be a bit convoluted because I try to connect references and some I noticed while writing it - sorry.)

Into space

The project board that we see on the left side behind Max mentions Kathryn Sullivan, an astronaut and the first American woman who ever made a space walk. Interestingly, there's a mistake: on the board it says. Sullivan is the first woman ever, however she wasn't, the first was a Russian: Svetlana Savitskaya. (These kind of "tiny mistakes" are almost a pattern with Mr Clarke. He said about Phineas Gage that he was physically fine. No, he wasn't. He lost an eye and even in the 80s it was safe to speculate that he had severe brain damage as proven later. But why these mistakes? Same reason they used the Planck constant from 2014 and not the 80s - this looks deliberate.)

So, on the one side of the black board we have the "skeletal system" and the "Nervous system" on the other: Brain, spinal cord, semsory org(ans).... It's all connected. - And there's a brain in front of Clarke too.

Over this there are Halloween themed cat heads. Now, on the one hand you can argue: that's Vecna as the silver cat. Besides that I pointed out that Max is herself a silver cat (like snapping/snarling at people like a feral cat, the Silver/Lone Ranger connection and her silver headphones and the fact that she fed dog while Vecna fed on Chrissy says: There's a double meaning behind the Silver Cat), the Halloween theme is more connected to El and Max, dressing as the ghost and the killer. So, I say that the Halloween cats are also connected to Max.

This is foreshadowing too. And it will haunt you. El is a ghost and Max...the killer.

Mr Clarke says in his Phineas Gage lesson "physically he was fine" (not true for Gage) and then the camera changes focus to Max when he says "complete change in his personality" which is true for Gage, Max on the other hand... Max doesn't believe brain damage is a thing. Why? Some believe it's ironic that she doesn't believe it's a thing and now may have brain damage. However I believe that Max is probably right in her own case at least in regards to the future, and that the Duffers are just messing with the audience, and Max doesn't or won't have actual brain damage. It's Max's belief that foreshadows her "healing".

Like a case of a woman that was blind after an accident and misdiagnosed with cortical brain damage. She actually had a multiple personality disorder/DID. One of her alters could see, another was disabled (that's really a thing btw) - That's the idea behind these plot elements/lines: they are "true lies" so to speak. Max doesn't/won't have brain damage, she has/will have DID.

This and the brain is directly related to the moonlanding and space through visuals in this scene. Right below the clock, there's a poster showing the brain in various views and below that poster is a photograph of the moonlanding in 1969 of Apollo 11. "The eagle has landed" - the poster behind Max's head shows a bird of prey and while I think it's a falcon/hawk (I have an idea what this may refer to), you can argue that this is connected because it's part of the sequences we see of Max during the revival.

And then there's the mission on the project board which Kathryn Sullivan made the space walk. The mission registration is half hidden behind the TV and ends on 41-6...no, not 6. "G". It's actually a G, STS-41-G, but this G-letter looks like a 6. (I misread it at first. Till I checked.) This is deliberate I'd argue. Because read as a 6,it says "....-4-16". Another 11?

The day of that mission was October 11th.

The patch:

Sullivan and Leestma went out on the space walk or EVA, an extravehicular activity, to demonstrate the refueling system.

On the board it says "Extra! Extra!!" as a starting phrase to point to this event. Stating that it's the first woman who made a space walk - First of all in one shot this is directly behind Max's head and there's a lot going on behind her head in the background in numerous scenes btw like the "Love at first bite" Pac-Man sign, or her poster of the "Endless Summer" while she's fixing her skateboard, something that appears in S2-4, Lucas covering Max's mouth while the Pac-Man game is right behind her etc.

Second of all: This "Extra! Extra!!' with the three exclamation points is similar to two lines by Sam Owens:

"You are One of the good Ones" and later "First...first things first". - And it's behind Max's head. Like there's an "Extra" directly in her head.

Lots of 1s/Ones in these sentences. And I'll did point out the "Him - her" before but I'll ho into more detail in another post.

Space travel

In Season 1 El does whatever she actually does (transporting/atomize things into tiny matter that then disappears) to the Demogorgon and disappears at the exact same spot on the blackboard that in S2 has all this stuff with skeletal and nervous system on it while above are cats.... That is no coincidence. (And some pointed out that El seemingly dissappeared in the lab incident, the other girl stayed, that there are two girls, two different cracks in the tiles)

Same spot. Anyone thinking that this is a coincidence? The connection between El's first disappearance, the Halloween cats, the nervous system writing on the blackboard? Brain poster and moonlanding too. The writing is literally on the wall. - El will disappear or "travel" into that "space", into the brain, the nervous system, like eaten by a silver cat..Max's brain.

Like she went into a cats paw (the portal in the wall of Season 2) when escaping from the UD and potentially swapping timelines (or whatever) and is then figuratively be "born" from a cats paw. ("Are you real. Did I make you?", Max as the Silver Cat) And the glow in the portal resembles...a heart?

A glowing "heart" in the middle of a cats paw and there's the glowing in the rainbow sequence that also looks like a heart for split seconds, the heart imagery and El's and Max's hearts literally connected via sound effect. Both their hearts stopped, both were revived and they are literally, audibly and visually connected. This points to the origin story of ElMax that was hinted at in Season 4. ( Yes, I firmly believe that they have a comon origin story and it's not a romantic ship that just happened.)

The silver cat feeds. Feed = consume or feed = nurture. The sentence has more than one meaning. And I would argue that it's the silver cat on the right is the one we should focus on.

Besides, these shots of Vecna and Max mirror each other. He comes from the left, using his left hand feeding on Chrissy, she's on the right using her right hand feeding dog.

And in Season 2, when El touches Terry's hand, she gets a reaction even though Terry's brain is scrambled eggs, actually damaged by Brenner. Neural pathways firing up... This scene is like a Chekhovs gun.

Why is this connected? Terry having potential brain damage from Brenner, Max left with a disruption between her sensory organs and the nervous system. There's an explanation and in parts we can piece that together. I dare say that Terry isn't El's mom, that El originally wasn't "born" in a traditional sense.

But let's go back to...

Cosmic Love - The brain is a universe

The writers were asked how they would describe the Season 4 ending with a song. The answer: Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine.

(image from a Forbes article from 2016)

Did I mention that in the past it was noticed that the neural pathways, the network of the brain look like cosmic web looks?

It's debated of that's an accurate scientific comparison to a human brain: "Altogether, the cosmic web looks somewhat like a human brain. To be more precise, the distribution of matter in the universe looks a little like the “connectome,” the network of nerve connections in the human brain."

And who can't see or feel anything? Who is the cure? Who a silver cat? And who is One?

Conclusion:

ElMax is a love that happens in the head of someone. In the brain. - Max's. The brain is a universe with billions of stars. It's a "cosmic love". For the mind. (In which El fought for Max, while Lucas fought in the physical world - El for the mind, Lucas for the physical world.) And El can repair Max from within. She's the cure. The medicine. And that Max can...will absorb everything that El was and will be, her memories, her abilities. El's consciousness. That way, El can fire up the neural pathways, make Max see and feel even though this comes at a price. All magic comes at a price.

It's technically pretty simple, even though I digress a bit in my post(s) - the Duffers just used many props and backgrounds as metaphors over the years to point to this. Good foreshadowing and Easter eggs for generations to find after the show is over. It can be read partially as the events of S4 but I'd argue that in connection with El's disappearance in S1, the hint towards cats and Halloween (Max both "killer" and silver cat), that this is actually foreshadowing events of Season 5. Even though it's called space walk...it's more flying, leaving your vehicle to go into space. "You will need to fly"

In this scene of Max being introduced to the class, the Duffers foreshadow her fate, that she would end up in her current state while at the same time telling us how she will be healed: through El making a space walk into Max's brain, exploring this universe of her nervous system - and a cosmic love among the stars of this neural network.

Oh, and of course I forgot:

A wrinkle in time

Sorry for the long time it took. Can be a bit exhausting especially when it's not your first language you are writing in.

[teachersource]

Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951. An American astronaut and physicist born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying two missions on the Space Shuttle Challenger, Ride left NASA in 1987.

[pycpim]

Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space on July 25, 1984. Who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission, she became the first woman to fly to space twice. #Communist #CPIM #Russia #Soyuz

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.25 (after 1900)

1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes. 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross. 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%). 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. 1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation. 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war. 1946 – The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test. 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51. 1957 – The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba. 1958 – The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou. 1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. 1971 – The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army. 1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. 1978 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders. 1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. 1979 – In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. 1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners. 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. 1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War. 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948. 1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded. 1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya. 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people. 2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

[whitneyfanclublog]

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. #womenshistorymonth

[ultimatemiley23]

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. #womenshistorymonth

[abwwia]

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. via Wikipedia

After leaving NASA, Sally wrote science books for children alongside her partner, science educator Tam O’Shaughnessy. Sally came out publicly for the first time in her obituary. In 2013, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, which Tam accepted on her behalf.

[Image description: 1984 portrait of Sally in her NASA uniform in front of a US flag and model rocket; Sally in her spacesuit on board the Challenger shuttle]

via tumblr queerasfact

[spaceexp]

On this day in 1984, the Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savítskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

[peaceforgers]

Thinking about women who did things that were sci-fi before they became sci-fact...25 July, 1984, Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to do a spacewalk. That grin is well-earned.

[onceuponafunko]

Svetlana Savitskaya Soviet Cosmonaut First Woman to Walk in Space Custom Funko

The eighth woman in my Women Space Pioneers set.  Savitskaya was the second woman to fly in space in 1982 and in 1984 became the first woman to fly twice on the same mission where she became the first woman to walk in space.  She uses a Moonwalker body from Fortnite painted in the style of a Soviet pressure suit.  Her head is Erin Gilbert from Ghostbusters.  It’s not the exact right hair because Savitskaya had a bi-level haircut that was basically a bowl cut in front and a long ponytail in back but this was as close as I was likely to ever find in a funko part. 

I will take commissions to replicate this funko, please contact privately to discuss price as the market for the figures in which I make these out of can change wildly.  Ask me about my etsy shop.

[wastehound-voof]

So this is an auction:

ORIGINAL FLOWN SOVIET SOKOL-KV-2 SPACESUIT WORN BY COSMONAUT SAVITSKAYA

$150,000. Free shipping.

(This same seller is also selling a photo of a dead guy for $4.95.)

[humanoidhistory]

TODAY IN HISTORY: On July 25, 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space, conducting an EVA outside the Salyut 7 space station for 3 hours and 35 minutes.

[cosmonautroger]