Maryna Vasileuskaya

[8] She is a flight attendant and instructor for Belavia Airlines, working on Boeing and Embraer aircraft.

[10][11] She is passionate about interior design, and enjoys going to the swimming pool, doing aerobics, playing badminton tennis, and gardening.

[3][5][7] 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.

[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.

[21][1][22] She and Novitsky returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on 6 April 2024.

Anastasia Lenkova (left) and Maryna Vasileuskaya (right)
Vasileuskaya before launch
Vasileuskaya on ISS