Marina Vasilevskaya

Marina Vitalyevna Vasilevskaya (Belarusian: Марина Василевская; 1990) is a flight attendant for Belavia Airlines in Belarus.[2][3][4][1] She will become the first Belarusian woman in space.[5]

Marina Vasilevskaya
Марина Василевская
Born (1990-09-14) 14 September 1990
Occupation(s)flight instructor, flight attendant
OrganizationBelavia
Space career
Belarus Space Agency cosmonaut
Time in space
12 days (planned)
MissionsSoyuz MS-25/MS-24[1]

Biography

Marina Vasilevskaya is a flight instructor and flight attendant for Belavia Airlines, working on the crews of Boeing and Embraer aircraft.[6][2] She practiced ballroom dancing professionally for 15 years before joining the airline. This astronaut 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.[2][4]

Space mission

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.[7][8][9] She was designated as a member of prime crew. She will travel to the station with Roscosmos cosmonaut, Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, where she and Oleg will spend approximately 12 days aboard the orbital complex as a part of 21st ISS visiting expedition.[10][1] After spending 10 days on the International Space Station she and Oleg will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 with NASA astronaut, Loral O'Hara.[10][2][9][4]

References
  1. "Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya to blast off for ISS mission early in 2024". TASS. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  2. "SB news". www.sb.by (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  3. "Belarus' Marina Vasilevskaya assigned to fly to ISS as part of prime crew". eng.belta.by. 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  4. Naren, Karthik (2023-07-25). "Belarusian Cosmonaut Embark Space Mission to the ISS". Space Intelligence. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  5. "Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya included in the main crew for the flight to the ISS". TV channel «Belarus 24». Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  6. "NASA astronaut assigned to International Space Station mission with Russia, Belarus". Yahoo News. 2023-09-19. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  7. "Belarusian cosmonaut candidates named". eng.belta.by. 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  8. "Flight to ISS as new bar for Belarus - Who will be first female cosmonaut in history of sovereign country?". Белтелерадиокомпания. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  9. "When will first Belarusian woman fly into space?". Белтелерадиокомпания. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  10. O’Shea, Claire (2023-09-15). "NASA Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson Receives Third Space Station Assignment". NASA. Retrieved 2023-09-19.


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