Yelena Serova

Yelena Serova during spacewalk training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Yelena will be the fourth Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space, 17 years after Yelena Kondakova's mission on Space Shuttle STS-84, the last female cosmonaut. Yelena Serova is an engineer and economist and joined the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps in 2011. Her husband is also a cosmonaut and they have one daughter.