MINSK, April 10 The first cosmonaut in the history of independent Belarus, Marina Vasilevskaya, successfully completed During his flight to the ISS, scientific and educational projects that were planned to be implemented, said the chief scientific secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic Vasily Gursky.
“Serious work was carried out to fill this flight. There were many applications, projects that could be implemented during the space flight… There were strict criteria for selecting projects, seven projects were selected, of which five are scientific and two are educational. Later they were successfully implemented by Vasilevskaya during her flight,” Gursky said at a press conference. 
One of the projects concerned the topic of remote sensing of the Earth. The director of the Geographic Information Systems enterprise of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Sergei Zolotoy, said that the ISS is equipped with Belarusian equipment — a spectrozonal camera, which makes it possible to survey the Earth's territory in a sufficiently large number of spectral ranges.
“During the flight, a complex experiment was carried out: certain territories were filmed with this equipment from the ISS, this was carried out by Vasilevskaya, in parallel, ground-based means of monitoring the transparency of the atmosphere were deployed in Belarus…, and in parallel, filming of the same territory was carried out from our spacecraft. This experiment will allow us to develop certain methods for calibrating spectrozonal video cameras for Earth remote sensing satellites,” Zolotoy explained.
Natalya Furik, First Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Meat and Dairy Industry, said that Vasilevskaya was also tasked with conducting an experiment necessary to implement plans to create a complex fermented milk product to maintain the human microbiota during space flight. Thus, strains of lactic acid organisms and bifidobacteria were selected and transferred with the necessary equipment for delivery to the ISS and conducting experiments. “The experiments have been completed, the equipment has been delivered to Earth… We will determine what happened to the microorganisms in space, their safety, properties, how they were cultivated in space. We will obtain data on the dairy product that was produced in space,” she explained.
Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Animal Husbandry Alexander Budevich said that Vasilevskaya on the ISS also conducted an experiment with lactoferrin, and now scientists will study how the properties of the protein and its activity have changed, and will continue to work on the creation complex preparation with probiotics for use in space flight conditions. It is expected that such a drug may in the future help in the recovery of astronauts after a flight and increase their immunity.
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