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26 Sep 20142016-08-24T02:37:06+03:00
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Alexander MILKUSAa
The first Russian woman on the ISS, Elena Serova: My daughter sent a hare with me
Shortly before that, the participant of the flight answered the questions of our correspondent [photo, video, infographic, exclusive "KP"]
Today, the fourth female professional cosmonaut in the history of Russian cosmonautics launched to the ISS
I will immediately explain why the flight of Elena Serova, from my point of view, is almost a feat.
Yes, I know the opinions of ordinary people - well, another woman flew, what's wrong with that?
American women went on semi annual expeditions to the Mir space station, and they worked on the ISS more than once.
And our Elena Kondakova spent six months in orbit.
If only it were as easy for a woman to get into the cosmonaut squad (and then get assigned to the crew) as it is for American women.
I am familiar with Irina Bayanovna Solovyova - the understudy of Valentina Tereshkova.
I met with Zhanna Dmitrievna Yerkina and Tatyana Dmitrievna Kuznetsova - they were also selected for the first women's group of cosmonauts.
I know the fate of Valentina Leonidovna Ponomareva from the same, first squad… ..
Seven years!
They had been preparing for the flight for seven years.
The most difficult.
The female crew had to spend two weeks in orbit in a tiny ball - the Voskhod ship - and even go into outer space.
And then the program was closed.
Once and no.
They are not needed...
At the fitting of the spacesuit.
Photo of the CPC
I can also tell you about two wonderful, very beautiful women doctors Larisa Pozharskaya and Elena Dobrokvashina, with whom I had the honor to be acquainted.
In the 80s of the last century, they were preparing for a flight to the Salyut station, and then to Mir.
More than ten years...
And again - flights are canceled, the group is disbanded.
"He was expelled from the cosmonaut squad... in connection with the transition to another job...".
Men in a similar situation broke down.
What was it like for young women who, for the sake of a great goal, pushed their families into the background.
Many even did not dare to have children.
And the charming Nadia Kuzhelnaya!
She joined the cosmonaut squad in 1994, was assigned to the crews several times.
I remember how she ran to training with a one month old daughter in her arms.
Until 2001, Nadezhda was waiting for her turn to come.
Experts will tell me - but Svetlana Savitskaya and Elena Kondakova flew.
Yes, they have excellent training.
Svetlana is an experienced test pilot, Elena is an excellent engineer.
But, how many times have those who did not fly complained to me: would Savitskaya have waited for two flights if her father had not been an air marshal?
And how would Elena Kondakova's biography have developed if her husband had not been the famous cosmonaut, deputy general designer of the rocket and space corporation Energia Valery Ryumin?
A flightless cosmonaut, as it appears in the encyclopedias...
There is nothing sadder than this phrase.
At a training session in the American segment in Houston.
Photo by NASA.
Therefore, I am very happy for Lena Serova.
There is no "strong hand" behind it.
Except for her husband Mark - they joined the cosmonaut squad together.
Everything that Elena has achieved and what Mark will still achieve is the result of their joint hard work.
Even from a short conversation, it seemed to me that this is a family where each other is a mountain.
And it is precisely such a bundle, where one is the rear of the other, that achieves the peaks.
In this case, the vertices are stellar.
Far Eastern crew
Lena was born in 1976.
She grew up, as she wrote to me, at a military airfield in the Far Eastern Vozdvizhenka, near Ussuriysk.
"This is my Homeland."
That's right - with a capital letter.
« My first teacher, Vera Sergeevna Vorobyova, was very wise and kind.
She told us about all the events taking place in cosmonautics.
We knew all the cosmonaut pilots, "the Ussuri newspaper "Kommunar" quotes the memories of a fellow countryman, whose journalists helped KP to find a child's photo of Lena.
In this children's photo, Lena is the third from the left in the bottom row.
Photo from the archive of the newspaper "Kommunar".
These lessons have sunk into the soul of a ten year old girl.
Lena says that it was then that she decided to become an engineer whose life will be connected with the sky.
Then Lena followed her father, an Air Force officer, went to the GDR, to the Western Group of Troops.
Already from Baikonur, Lena wrote to me:
- I saw on TV: paratroopers recently trained at the Vozdvizhenka base.
This was very inspiring and pleased...
- Why?
I asked.
- Because I saw my native airfield, hangars.
Once there was a long range aviation, until everything was destroyed.
And now there are training sessions again.
This is the hope for the revival of the glory of our country.
Coincidence: the commander of its space crew, Alexander Samokutyaev, served in the 1st Air Army in the Cremovo garrison in the 90s - very close to Vozdvizhenka.
The commander of the ship is Alexander Samokutyaev.
Photo of the CPC.
In 1993, Lena graduated from the school of the Western Group of Troops, and then, as she dreamed, she entered the aerospace faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute.
She became a test engineer.
There she also met her future husband Mark Serov.
Together we came to work in the Main Operational Control Group of the Mission Control Center in Korolev, near Moscow.
In 2003, Mark was enlisted in the cosmonaut squad.
In 2006 - Elena.
Eight years of training.
I think only with Lenin's character it was possible to withstand this.
Cabin with a view of the Ground
…
It was not possible to intercept Serova in Zvezdnoye before leaving for Baikonur.
But she answered all the questions punctually by e mail.
Despite the fact that every minute counts at the cosmodrome on pre flight days.
And this is also her character: commitment, I gave my word keep it.
- Lena, in all the photos you are with a bunch of hair tightly pulled back on the back of your head, and in a strict pantsuit.
Is this an image, a business style?
American women come to training even in dresses...
- I collect my hair in a bun, because it's so convenient.
We always wear the uniform according to the regulations.
- What is your favorite style of clothing?
- Sporty or semi sporty, but the profession requires a strict, neat style.
- I think you were wearing a pantsuit when we met in Zvezdny, too...
- Most likely, yes.
Or in a flight suit, as required by training on simulators.
- Which discipline during the general space training was the easiest for you, and which was the hardest?
- It is difficult to say, because during the training in the squadron, cosmonauts pass a huge, without exaggeration, number of exams and tests, not to mention special trainings.
- You know the story of Nadia Kuzhelnaya, which, in my opinion, was simply lost by men.
But they still stubbornly fought their way into the squad and into the flight.
What did you expect?
What gave me confidence that I would be able to fly?
- I know that Nadezhda is a hard worker and a great clever woman.
And I counted on God, on myself and my loved ones, who helped me and supported me.
I mean my family, my relatives.
- Your daughter will soon be 12 years old.
Who will help your family and her while Mom is on a long business trip?
- Alyonka is already an adult girl.
Nevertheless, my mother and my sister will help my spouse.
The Serov family.
The photo was taken 6 years ago.
From the archive of Mark Serov.
- Usually children give astronauts a talisman for flight.
What did your daughter give you?
- An Olympic hare and sewed a ribbon with a Russian tricolor in the form of a bow on his chest.
BY THE WAY
Let me remind you: the Soyuz TMA 14M crew also takes toy leopards and Amur tigers into orbit with them.
On the eve of the International Tiger Day, Roscosmos, together with the Amur Tiger and Far Eastern Leopards organizations, are holding an environmental campaign to attract the international community to the problem of preserving the population of rare animal species.
- If it's not a secret, what is so important that you take on board in your personal belongings?
I was told that Sally Wright took a lot of cosmetics with her.
- It's not a secret.
I take only what is allowed: letters, photos of relatives and friends, a few things dear to me and, of course, gifts for the New Year for the guys.
But what exactly is a mystery.
In total, we are allowed to take no more than a kilogram of personal belongings.
- What experiments that you will have to conduct on the ISS, do you consider the most important and the most interesting?
- All the experiments on board the ISS - and we will have to conduct more than 50 of them - are priceless.
They can not be divided into important and not so important.
Unfortunately, only a few people now understand the full significance of the scientific work carried out by astronauts at the station.
But when you show a simple man in the street shots in which plasma takes the form of DNA at a certain temperature or tell them that living bacteria have been found on the porthole in outer space that live only in the Barents Sea, their perception of the world changes greatly.
One of the experiments to be carried out by cosmonaut Serova: plasma in weightlessness for some reason copies the structure of human DNA.
How does this work out?
- Usually men give up the most comfortable cabin to a lady.
Three Russians will work on the ISS.
Two cabins are located in the Russian segment, the third is rented in the American one.
Whose territory is your cabin on?
- No, I will have a chic cabin with a view of the Earth in the Russian segment.
Mark was preparing a ship for his wife
And he builds - for himself
I am very grateful to Mark Serov: in the conditions of a wild pre start time pressure, he coordinated our correspondence and we were able to communicate with Lena.
At the same time, Mark himself flew to Baikonur, or, as the cosmonauts say, to the landfill, before his wife.
He was preparing the ship on which she was to fly into space.
His position is called as follows: head of the flight test department of the rocket and space corporation Energia.
In simple terms, Mark Serov is teaching a new Russian spacecraft to fly.
Fitting a spacesuit.
Photo of the CPC
- I am the leading test cosmonaut of a promising transport ship, - he explained in an interview published in the latest issue of the magazine "Cosmonautics News".
- What does this mean?
Here is a direct analogy with the test pilot of the design bureau: the layout of workplaces and habitable compartments, the development of instructions for actions in an emergency situation, requirements for flight equipment.
Even questions of technical aesthetics.
I have been participating in the project since the very idea.
And I hope that I will be the one to lift the ship into space.
FROM THE "KP"DOSSIER
The Russian manned Soyuz spacecraft, which launched at night from Baikonur, successfully docked to the ISS .
The new crew is already at the station.
For the first time in 17 years, our compatriot will work in orbit.
Cosmonaut Elena Serova, along with colleagues Alexander Samokutyaev and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore, will spend 170 days on the ISS.
Today, the only reliable means of delivering astronauts to the International Station is the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
But in Russia, as in the United States, a new generation of ships is being developed.
In fact, they will become the basis of large starships that will cruise to the Moon and Mars.
So far, the Russian project does not have a proper name, only the name of the project is a promising transport ship of a new generation.
The tests should begin in 2018.
Barry Wilmore.
A NASA astronaut.
Photo of the CPC.
CREW
The Soyuz TMA 14M flight is the fortieth flight of a Russian spacecraft to the International Space Station.
The crew commander is Alexander Samokutyaev, flight engineers are Elena Serova and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore.
They will have to work in orbit for 168 days.
Photo: Dmitry POLUKHIN
THE FIRST SELFIE
At about 9 am Moscow time, the hatches separating the International Space Station and the Soyuz TMA 14M spacecraft opened.
The newcomers flew into their space home.
Now there are six people in orbit Maxim Suraev, Gregory Weisman and Alexander Gerst ("grandfathers"), Alexander Samokutyaev, Elena Serova and Barry Wilmore ("recruits").
When everyone gathered in the Russian service module, Maxim Suraev took his first selfie!
The first selfie of the new crew
SEE ALSO
While someone is talking in social networks about how to "get out of this country", she puts on a spacesuit with a tricolor
The second day does not let go of the news about the flight to the ISS of the beautiful Elena Serova.
I watched TV stories, read her interviews.
And I still couldnot understand why I was hooked on it.
And then I realized.
This is news in its pure, classic form.
About the flight, about the preparation, about the overload, about some special swimsuits that Elena ordered for herself and which she will wear there, in zero gravity.
There are no rotten arguments about how we will now live without parmesan and mussels.
There are no sofa troops who tear their shirt on their chest and have already drowned everyone in blood and concrete.
I was tired, trying to understand this unbridled joy: "and we said, the cargo will go 200".
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