Russian Soyuz rocket suffers rare last-minute abort during launch of 3 astronauts to ISS

[JoseBalow]

1. Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus won a competition

to become become the first Belarusian woman in space. She's a flight attendant, not a trained cosmonaut.

In December 2022, during a competitive selection held in Belarus, she was selected among six applicants from more than three thousand women to participate in a space flight under the "Belarusian Woman in Space" project on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to ISS for a short duration mission. This contest was organised by Belarus Academy of Sciences. The other five were another flight attendant, two doctors, and two scientists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Vasilevskaya