Lena De Winne
Lena De Winne (née Nikolova; January 23, 1969) is the Deputy Head of Administration of Asgardia, also known as the Space Kingdom of Asgardia, and the CEO of NGO Asgardia. From 1993 to 2009 she worked in the European Space Agency based in the town of Noordwijk in the Netherlands where she was engaged in international relations, business development, promotion, and educational activities. De Winne is a writer and public figure and her work is focused on human spaceflight, popular communication, and literature. She has written several books of prose and poetry and numerous articles.
Education[edit]
Lena De Winne grew up and studied in Moscow . In 1986 she began studying at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a major in electrical engineering (completed MSc in 1992)..[1].
In 1998 she started to earn her a Master in Business (MBA) from the The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, which she completed in 2000. In 2003 she earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the California Southern University (formerly Southern California University for Professional Studies).
Career[edit]
Lena De Winne began her work in human spaceflight in 1993 when she assumed her first role with the European Space Agency (ESA) as an interpreter for the Euromir Programs.
From 2010 to 2012, Lena De Winne worked as a television presenter at the Belgian production studio Kanakna, now operating as Zodiak, and participated in filming an 11-series documentary program on Russia called "Rusland voor Beginners" [2] commissioned by the Belgian state-owned Canvas channel.
In 2009, Lena De Winne wrote her first story about the expedition of her husband, Frank De Winne and his crew, Roman Romanenko and Robert Thirsk, aboard the ISS. The book is called My Countdown: The Story Behind my Husband’s Spaceflight[3]. It was originally written in English (published by Apogee Books, Canada) but the book was translated into Dutch (published by Davidsfonds, Belgium) and into French (published by Racine, Belgium). Later she re-wrote the book in Russian (published by AST, Russia). Between 2009-2010, she authored a series of articles about human spaceflight in the science section of the Snob portal[4].
During Roman Romanenko’s second flight (19 December 2012 - 14 May 2013), Lena De Winne wrote a children's book dedicated to his daughter, Romanenko Nastya. The book was published by the publishing house Samokat and was entitled, "My father is an astronaut. A true story about how Roman Romanenko and clown Klepa flew into space”[5].
In 2013, De Winne co-authored a literary and artistic project called "XXI Century. The View of the Artist and the Poet” with artist Vyacheslav Davydov for the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. She became a member of the Writers’ Guild of Moscow in the same year.
In 2014, De Winne became the Director of ROOM Space Journal[6]
In 2015, in co-authorship with the artist Denis Trusevich, Lena De Winne released a book in Russian titled "Space Alphabet" (self-published)[7]. This book is now used in extracurricular space education across Russia. In 2015, she also became a member of the poetic group DOOS, created by Konstantin Kedrov.
On October 12, 2016, De Winne joined the team of the Asgardia, under the leadership of Igor Ashurbeyli. In an interview in September 2018 De Winne said "I am fascinated with the opportunity to play a role in setting a society that transcends cultures and borders”[8]
Personal Life[edit]
Lena De Winne has been married Frank De Winne since 2005. Frank is an astronaut from the European Space Agency who she met while working at ESTEC, The Netherlands.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Team: Lena De Winne". Room, The Space Journal. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ↑ "Docu: Rusland voor beginners". Humo (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ↑ Lena., De Winne, (2011). Dnevnik zheny kosmonavta. Moskva: AST. ISBN 9789851696594. OCLC 741165860. Search this book on
- ↑ "Lena De Winne". Snob.ru. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ↑ "Roman Romanenko, Russian astronaut". Russian Personalities (in русский). 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- ↑ "Room, The Space Journal". Room, The Space Journal. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- ↑ De Winne, Lena; Trusevich, Denis (2015). The Space Alphabet. Russia: Big Dipper. Search this book on
- ↑ Asgardia.space (2018-10-01). "Lena De Winne: "I am fascinated with the opportunity to play a role in setting a society that…". Medium. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
External Links[edit]
- Asgardia Website
- News. Interview.
- Utro.ru. Interview.
- Youtube. Lena de Winne
- Radio culture. Interview.
- Echo of Moscow. News blog.
- Radio Mediametrics. Interview.
- Room.eu
- Room Team
- Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation
- My Countdown.
- The Moscow Times
- Italia Campus Party. Blurb.
- Collect Space. My Countdown Writeup.
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