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The American became the first person in the world to conquer space and the ocean

American Catherine Sullivan became the first person on Earth to be in space and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, writes Air force.

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Former NASA astronaut on June 7 made a dive to a depth of 10915 m in the abyss of Challenger in the southwest of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

“Cruising over the lunar landscape of the ocean floor, I felt like an alien approaching an alien planet. It was unforgettable,” the 68-year-old traveler shares her impressions with the BBC.

Kate Sullivan became the eighth person to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, and the first woman.

Her partner, a Texas investor and researcher Viktor Veskovo, previously became the first person to visit the deepest places of all five oceans of the Earth (previously it was believed that there were four of them, but recently geographers began to separate the Antarctic waters into a separate Southern Ocean).

Sullivan and Vescovo spent about an hour and a half viewing the underwater gorge from the Triton 36000, built by Vescovo's company Caladan Oceanic and capable of withstanding extreme water pressure.

“I never thought that I would ever get this opportunity and have Victor invite me to join him,” Dr. Sullivan admitted.

In places like the Mariana Trench, it’s very cold, completely dark, and the pressure can erase anything. But life there somehow exists, and scientists are only getting closer to understanding how.

The first to visit the bottom of the Mariana Trench were in 1960, US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard on board the bathyscaphe Trieste.

The next dive happened half a century later. In 2012, director James Cameron sank down alone on his bright green mini-submarine.

The current dive was part of the Ring of Fire expedition, during which Vescovo plans to visit the deepest points of the Pacific Ocean.

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Kate Sullivan worked at NASA from 1979-1992. In October 1984, she became the first American to go into outer space (a little earlier, in July of that year, the Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya did it).

Sullivan flew into space three times, spent a total of 532 hours there, and in 2004 won a seat in the Astronauts Hall of Fame.

In 2011-2017, she worked as deputy director, then director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In a telephone interview with the BBC while still at sea, Dr Sullivan called the ocean and space "the two greatest physical frontiers still facing humanity".

True, the conditions there are very different. The ISS is surrounded by vacuum, and the deep-sea vehicle experiences a pressure of a thousand atmospheres, or 1,25 tons per square centimeter.

“I was trained as both a scientist and an engineer, so being in a specialized vehicle, whether it’s the shuttle or the Limiting Factor [the name of Victor Vescovo’s submersible] is an endless pleasure for me,” she explained. “To me, these are magic flying carpets that can take us to places that humans would never otherwise reach.”

Kate Sullivan had a PhD in geology and had been on oceanographic expeditions before joining NASA, so she happily said yes to the offer to go deep into the ocean.

“Seeing with my own eyes one of the deepest ocean trenches, where powerful geological activity occurs, is much more interesting for me as an oceanographer than in photographs. This is a completely different matter,” the researcher commented.

Rob McCallum, co-founder of EYOS Expeditions, which handled logistics for the expedition, called Kate Sullivan a “passionate and professional ocean advocate.”

“She has extensive experience using technology for research purposes. As an educator and advocate for the oceans, she will be able to do a lot to explain the importance of deep-sea exploration,” he emphasized.

Returning to their ship, Kate Sullivan and Victor Veskovo talked on the phone with the ISS crew, located 400 kilometers from Earth.

“It was a connection between people conquering distant frontiers, a celebration of the human thirst for discovery and the technology that made such exciting journeys possible,” commented Dr. Sullivan. “For me it was like meeting old friends.”

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Expeditions like the one Dr. Sullivan did expand human capabilities. She hopes to encourage others to follow suit.

“For decades, I defined myself as an astronaut, a scientist and an explorer. I will continue my activities,” she says. “I want others to feel how inherent the pioneering spirit is in man, how natural and important it is for us to study every piece of our Universe and ourselves.”

The thirst for knowledge and innovation is the main driving force of progress, Dr. Sullivan is convinced.

“Technology will change people’s lives, lift humanity out of poverty and overcome the health crisis,” she said.

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