Republic of Belarus
Cosmonaut - Marina Vitalyevna Vasilevskaya
Flight – Soyuz MS-25, 23/03/2024
Time in space – 13d 18h 40m
Born on 14 September 1990 in Minsk, Belarus.
In December 2022, during a competitive selection process held in Belarus, she was selected among six applicants out of more than three thousand women willing to take part in a space flight on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. On 24 July 2023, she commenced theoretical and practical training for the flight at the CPC named after Y.A. Gagarin.
On 23 March 2024 at 15:36:10 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft was launched from pad 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome with a crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya, a participant of the space flight from the Republic of Belarus, and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, a participant of the 71st long-duration expedition to the station. The launch of the spacecraft into the target orbit, its separation from the third stage of the rocket, and the opening of the antennas and solar panels of the spacecraft were carried out in a normal mode. Docking of the Soyuz MS-25 to the Pryachal node module of the Russian segment of the ISS was carried out in automatic mode on 25 March 2024 at 18:02:50 Moscow time.
After a 13-day visiting expedition to the ISS, Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya returned to Earth on 6 April 2024 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Laurel O'Hara. At 10:17:53 Moscow time, the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft landed near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.
