Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya
Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya | |
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| Надежда Кужельная | |
Cosmonaut | |
| Retirement | 2004 |
Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya (
commercial pilot with Russian carrier Aeroflot
.
Early life
Nadezhda Vasilievna Kuzhelnaya was born on 6 November 1962 in
RKK Energia, designing equipment for spaceflights.[2]
Career
Kuzhelnaya applied 1994 to become a
cosmonaut and was accepted onto the two-year training programme,[2] and studied at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.[3] She was one of two civilians recruited, alongside Mikhail Tyurin, who had also worked for RKK Energia.[4] During the training, Kuzhelnaya married her flight instructor, Vladimir Morozov. When the couple had a daughter, Kuzhelnaya postponed her training for a while but returned quickly while Morozov looked after their child. Kuzhelnaya trained as a flight engineer, whose role would be to fly the Soyuz spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station.[3]
She was assigned to
Airbus A320 and Airbus A330
.
Notes
- ^ Gueldenpfennig 2012, p. 101.
- ^ a b Gueldenpfennig 2012, p. 102.
- ^ a b Gueldenpfennig 2012, p. 103.
- ^ Harvey 2001, p. 101.
- ^ Gueldenpfennig 2012, p. 104.
- ^ a b Gueldenpfennig 2012, p. 107.
- ^ "No room for women in space, claim Russians". ABC. 18 June 2003. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Goodpaster Strebe 2007, p. 81.
References
- Goodpaster Strebe, Amy (2007). Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. ISBN 978-1-448859-986.
- Gueldenpfennig, Sonia (2012). Women in Space Who Changed the World. New York: Rosen Central. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-448859-986.
Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya.
- Harvey, Brian (2001). Russia in Space: The failed frontier?. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-1-852332-037.
External links
- Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya's profile at www.astronaut.ru