Maryna Vitaleuna Vasileuskaya (Belarusian: Марына Віталеўна Васілеўская; born 14 September 1990) is a flight attendant for Belavia Airlines in Belarus.[3][4][5][1] She is the first Belarusian woman to be launched into space.[6][7]
Maryna Vasileuskaya | |
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Марина Василевская | |
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| Born | 14 September 1990 |
| Occupation | Flight attendant |
| Organization(s) | Belavia |
| Space career | |
| Belarus Space Agency spaceflight participant | |
Time in space | 13 days, 18 hours and 41 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz MS-25/MS-24[1][2] |
Biography
editMaryna Vasileuskaya graduated from secondary school No. 151 in Minsk.[8] She is a flight attendant and instructor for Belavia Airlines, working on Boeing and Embraer aircraft.[9][3] She started dancing around 2002, when she was 12.[7] Soon after completing school, she practiced ballroom dancing professionally for 15 years before joining the airline.[10][11] She is passionate about interior design, she enjoys going to the swimming pool, doing aerobics, playing badminton and tennis in her free time, as well as gardening.[3][5][7]
Space mission
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In December 2022, during a competitive selection held in Belarus, she was selected among six applicants from more than three thousand women to participate in a space flight under the "Belarusian Woman in Space" project on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to ISS for a short duration mission.[12][13] This contest was organised by Belarus Academy of Sciences. The other five were another flight attendant, two doctors, and two scientists.[7]
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In May 2023, she was one of the two remaining candidates (Anastasia Lenkova, being the other selected as her backup) following the Belarus Space Agency selection to fly aboard Soyuz MS-25 as a spaceflight participant in March 2024.[14][15][16] She was designated as a member of prime crew of ISS EP-21.
On 24 July 2023, she commenced theoretical and practical training for the flight at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.[17] In October, she began practical training on the Soyuz MS spacecraft simulator to conduct routine flight and undocking operations,[18] and underwent training in zero gravity conditions on the Ilyushin II-76 laboratory aircraft.[19] In December, together with Oleg Novitsky, she conducted training on the actions of astronauts in the event of an emergency landing in a wooded and swampy area in winter. She isn't trained for the US Orbital Segment as she only worked on the Russian Orbital Segment of ISS.[20]
She traveled to the station with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, where she and Oleg spent approximately 13 days aboard the orbital complex as a part of 21st ISS visiting expedition.[21][1][22] After spending those 13 days on the International Space Station, she and Novitsky returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on 6 April 2024.[21][3][16][5][7]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya to blast off for ISS mission early in 2024". TASS. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ Pearlmanpublished, Robert Z. (2024-03-23). "Flight attendant becomes 1st Belarusian in space on ISS-bound Soyuz launch". Space.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b c d "SB news". www.sb.by (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Belarus' Marina Vasilevskaya assigned to fly to ISS as part of prime crew". eng.belta.by. 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ a b c Naren, Karthik (2023-07-25). "Belarusian Cosmonaut Embark Space Mission to the ISS". Space Intelligence. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya included in the main crew for the flight to the ISS". TV channel «Belarus 24». Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ a b c d e каза, Тодор Ковачев (2024-02-12). "Защо Беларус изпраща стюардеса в космоса? – КОСМОС БГ – Сайт за космонавтика" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "Спортсменка, танцовщица, лидер. Подробности о Марине Василевской, которая вскоре отправится на МКС и станет первой белорусской космонавткой". Зеркало (in Russian). 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "NASA astronaut assigned to International Space Station mission with Russia, Belarus". Yahoo News. 2023-09-19. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ НЕСТЕРОВ, Александр (2022-12-28). "Претендентки на полет в космос от Беларуси — кто они? Сообщаем подробности". www.sb.by (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "Что известно о белорусской женщине-космонавте, которая отправится на МКС?". AiF (in Russian). 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ правды», | Сайт «Комсомольской. "«Белорусская леди на орбите»: голосуй за самую обаятельную красавицу, которая может полететь в космос". belarus.kp.ru - Сайт «Комсомольской правды» (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "В Белоруссии зарегистрировали более 3 тыс. заявок на полет в космос". TACC. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "Belarusian cosmonaut candidates named". eng.belta.by. 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Flight to ISS as new bar for Belarus - Who will be first female cosmonaut in history of sovereign country?". Белтелерадиокомпания. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ a b "When will first Belarusian woman fly into space?". Белтелерадиокомпания. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт". www.gctc.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт". www.gctc.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "Центр подготовки космонавтов им. Ю.А.Гагарина. Официальный Web-сайт". www.gctc.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "The crews of the 21st ISS visiting expedition survived in the winter forest".
- ^ a b O’Shea, Claire (2023-09-15). "NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson Receives Third Space Station Assignment". NASA. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ^ "Russian Soyuz spacecraft with 3 astronauts docks at the International Space Station". Yahoo News. 2024-03-25. Retrieved 2024-03-25.