According to Roscosmos plans, Novitsky and a female cosmonaut from Belarus will make a short flight and return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-24. The NASA astronaut's mission will last until September ...

Vasilevskaya was one of six finalists of a nationwide contest organized by the Belarus ... than 3,000 female candidates applied. "She's a flight attendant," Dyson, the NASA astronaut on board ...

Vasilevskaya, 33, was selected to fly by the Belarus Academy of ... NASA with its 17th group of astronauts in 1998. Dyson and Vasilevskaya are the first two women to launch together on board ...