National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

29.04.2024

Marina Vasilevskaya and Anastasia Lenkova meet with the youth of the country

On April 26, the NAS of Belarus hosted an official meeting of the country's youth with cosmonauts of the Republic of Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya and Anastasia Lenkova.

More than four hundred boys and girls took part in the event. These are young scientists of the NAS of Belarus, representatives of the BRSM, higher and secondary educational institutions of the Ministry of Education. During the official meeting, the cosmonauts talked about the preparation for the flight and difficult training. Hero of Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya shared her impressions of the flight as a member of the main crew of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and the 14-day space visiting expedition EP-21 (ЭП-21). Ivan Bucha, Deputy Head of the Department of Space Activities of the NAS of Belarus, spoke about how the selection of the first cosmonaut of sovereign Belarus took place and stressed that all scientific research that was supposed to be conducted on the ISS in the form of scientific experiments was conducted by Marina Vasilevskaya and carried out with high quality. The results obtained should be evaluated by the experimental designers, Belarusian and Russian scientists. Marina Vasilevskaya and Anastasia Lenkova answered numerous questions from young people.