Uznański will be the second Pole, after Mirosław Hermaszewski, to be in space. We had the opportunity to talk to him. As he told us, he can’t wait to experience the feeling that astronauts get when a rocket takes off.
Pole flies into space! Training begins
I certainly can’t wait to look back at Earth and all of us
– said the Polish scientist, and soon also an astronaut. Uznański also announced that he will try to take a photo of some place in Poland from orbit.
The most important thing is that we as a country are returning to manned space flights, we will have a Polish space mission and at the same time the opportunity to test technologies, build our technological future, and this is what I am most happy about, especially as an engineer and scientist
– Uznański emphasized. He told us that over 60 different institutes and companies have signed up for the aforementioned tests in orbit.
One such experiment that I follow quite closely is brain wave imaging and near-infrared imaging of brain activity, which allows us to study how our brains work in the very difficult conditions of zero-gravity orbit.
– he said.
You can listen to the entire conversation in the video below:
Who is Sławosz Uznański?
The Pole will train at Axiom Space, NASA and SpaceX facilities in the United States. In the mission, which has been named AX-4 (Axiom Mission), in addition to Sławosz Uznański, representing Poland and the European Space Agency (ESA), there will be three people: Peggy Whitson, an American biochemist and the first woman to command the International Space Station, who will lead the mission, Shubhanshu Shukla from India as a pilot, and Tibor Kapu from Hungary – a mission specialist.
After successfully completing training, the astronauts will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in a Dragon capsule. The launch will take place from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They will spend about two weeks in orbit.
Sławosz Uznański is from Łódź. He has linked his scientific career with the study of radiation, including cosmic radiation. He graduated with distinction from the Łódź University of Technology in 2008, obtaining a master’s degree in engineering. He obtained the same degree from the University of Nantes in France, also in 2008, and at the same time defended his engineer’s degree from the Polytechnic in Nantes. Three years later he defended his doctorate with distinction from the University of Aix-Marseille in France, where he was involved in research on radiation-resistant components for space applications. During his studies, he worked as a radiation effects engineer at STMicroelectronics.
He built his further career on the dream of space. Immediately after his studies, Sławosz Uznański – already a doctor – joined the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) research center in Geneva, where he works to this day on, among others, the Large Hadron Collider LHC.
Source: Gazeta
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