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Maryna Vasileuskaya

Maryna Vasileuskaya is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Maryna Vasileuskaya rather than just read about it. In short: Maryna Vitaleuna Vasileuskaya (Belarusian: Марына Віталеўна Васілеўская; born 14 September 1990) is a Belarusian cosmonaut and flight attendant for Belavia Airlines. She is the first Belarusian woman to be launched into space.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Maryna Vitaleuna Vasileuskaya (Belarusian: Марына Віталеўна Васілеўская; born 14 September 1990) is a Belarusian cosmonaut and flight attendant for Belavia Airlines. She is the first Belarusian woman to be launched into space.

Biography Maryna Vasileuskaya graduated from secondary school No. 151 in Minsk. She is a flight attendant and instructor for Belavia Airlines, working on Boeing and Embraer aircraft. She started dancing around 2002, when she was 12. Soon after completing school, she practiced ballroom dancing professionally for 15 years before joining the airline. She is passionate about interior design, and enjoys going to the swimming pool, doing aerobics, playing badminton tennis, and gardening.

Space mission

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. This contest was organised by Belarus Academy of Sciences. The other five were another flight attendant, two doctors, and two scientists.

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. 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. In October, she began practical training on the Soyuz MS spacecraft simulator to conduct routine flight and undocking operations, and underwent training in zero gravity conditions on the Ilyushin II-76 laboratory aircraft. 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 is not trained for the US Orbital Segment as she only worked on the Russian Orbital Segment of ISS. She traveled to the station with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, where she and Novitsky spent approximately 13 days aboard the orbital complex as a part of the 21st ISS visiting expedition. She and Novitsky returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on 6 April 2024.

References

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Maryna Vasileuskaya

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Maryna Vasileuskaya claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Maryna Vasileuskaya before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Maryna Vasileuskaya ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Maryna Vasileuskaya

In research: Maryna Vasileuskaya appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Maryna Vasileuskaya in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Maryna Vasileuskaya is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1990 births, Belarusian cosmonauts, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Maryna Vasileuskaya outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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