Hi, me again,
Just heard today that the only female cosmonaut, Nadezhda Kuzhel'naya/, 045640 C65;L=0O, left the Cosmonauts' Group on 27th May. She is doing a civil aviation correspondence course (from a school at Ulyanovsk) while working as co-pilot of an Aeroflot Tu-134 at Sheremetevo Airport (outside of Moscow). Guess she gave up hope of ever getting a spaceflight. As there were no women in the last group of recruits, this means that Russian women will go into space for many years yet (if ever...?) :(
Увы! :( А сколько таких судеб! :cry: А у американцев женщина - командир корабля!
С такими шансами на полет (2 человека в год) скоро будет и "No more men cosmonauts?". :(