In several dozen hours Sławosz Uznański -Wiśniewski will become the second Pole in history to fly into space – and the first to reach the international space station. His wife, MP Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, accompanies him during the last days of preparation in Florida. TVN's “Facts” correspondent Marcin Wrona talked to her.
A unique photo in her social media was published by Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, the wife of the Polish astronaut, who will fly to an international space station in several dozen hours. The couple in the photo is located close to each other, but they separate their glass, because Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski stays on the obligatory quarantine.
The correspondent of TVN “Facts” in the USA Marcin Wrona talked to the MP and wife of the astronaut about the life moment at which they are.
Can you think calmly about the fact that a close person will sit in a rocket, which takes place through a series of controlled pyrotechnic explosions? – This is some total abstraction. Absolute, surreal situation. And my husband prepared me for a long time, for many months – admits Aleksandra Uznańska -Wiśniewska. – The start of the rocket takes place through a series of controlled pyrotechnic explosions carrying the rocket to orbit at a speed of 28 thousand kilometers per hour. (…) My husband says “sits on a bomb”.
“I try my best as a wife to represent him”
A career in the space industry is a difficult and uncertain way. The Polish Astronaut's flight has already been postponed several times. – On the one hand, I see this man's multidimensionality – says Uznańska -Wiśniewska. – I see his great courage, but I also see the cost with which such a mission is associated with: preparation, stress, physical effort, great determination, high tension, and such life in uncertainty, because the mission is associated with a huge amount of uncertainty, shifts – says the MP.
There is a patch on Uznańska-Wiśniewska's T-shirt, depicting two wings.
Patch with ESA wingsTvn24
– These are the wings of the European Space Agency Sławosz, which Sławosz gave me, as we were still in Houston. He really wanted me to have these wings somehow, as such a symbol of our unity – he indicates. – Despite the fact that we are dividing us, now it's a distance, quarantine, in fact hundreds of kilometers for the last many, many months, I have it all the time. And I try to represent him as my wife – he concludes.
Currently, Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska is in a space base in Florida, from where the Polish astronaut will fly in cosmos. Doctor Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will be the second Pole in the history to do this. At the same time, he will be the first Pole to reach an international space station.
Ideas of Polish students will fly to space together with the Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-WiśniewskiHubert Kijek/Fakty TVN
The purpose of the mission is to implement the scientific and technology program, including experiments developed by the Polish space sector with the support of the European Space Agency, the Ministry of Development and Technology and the Polish Space Agency. The AX-4 crew, whose part will be the Polish astronaut, will be taken to the orbit of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon ship. The planned stay at the ISS will last up to 14 days
This mission is an important step in building Poland's potential in space exploration.
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