Water survival: Facts and numbers

From 7 to 24 June 2021, training was carried out on the basis of the Noginsky Rescue Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the actions of astronauts when landing the descent apparatus on the water surface. Six crews were tested with water. For candidates for astronauts, Alexander Kolyabama and Harutyun Kivryan, who have begun to be generalized preparation, these were the first workouts on “survival”. Along with cosmonauts, they studied to cope with abnormal situations.

For most other training participants, the main task was to maintain the earlier skills. In the tests of technical and human resources, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Perezenko, Nikolai Chub, Andrei Fedyaev, Anna Kikina and Nasa Astronauts Laurel O’Hara and Frank Rubio. Traditionally, the conditional crews included the instructors of the cosmonaut’s cosmonaut preparation of the names of Yu.A. Gagarin. By the way, Anna Kikina and Frank Rubio shortly before the start of training traveled from the USA. Changing time zones, a long flight can be considered an additional load on the body, but the cosmonaut and astronaut do well with the complicated conditions.

Recall that the crews performed the tasks of “dry”, “long” and “short” training, pre-passing theoretical training. During the “dry and” long “training, among other things, they had to change the” Falcon “Spaces in the trout wetsuit first on the shore, and then in the descent apparatus on the water. On the” short “training is important to meet the standard . Eight minutes, it is given that without changing the skateman on the wetsights to fasten the plascase, blocks of the worn emergency stock and further for one and a half minutes to leave the descent apparatus.

Speed ​​is important because, according to the conditions of training, the device allegedly gives to flow and quickly filled with water. If it was not damaged as a result of the leading, astronauts should be evacuated independently only in the event of a threat to their health and life. The descent apparatus is sealed, float and resistant water. Its systems are designed for a long-term (up to three days) the crew stay inside the apparatus performed.

Granat-6’s wearable emergency stock ensures the maintenance of cosmonauts with wind speed to 10 m / s:

  • at least 24 hours (if the temperature from + 25c to + 50c);
  • at least 72 hours (if the temperature is from -50c to + 25c).

The autonomous stay time at water temperature from – 1 ° C to + 30 ° C and the sea’s excitement to five points is at least 12 hours.

The main task of the crew in the event of a peculiarization is ready, including psychologically, to a long stay in a closed limited space of the descent apparatus with a shortage of water reserves, violation of the body thermoregulation system and a possible seating of seaside disease. And although the chances of landing on the water surface are very small, astronauts, astronauts and participants of the flight are carefully prepared for any abnormal situations.

/Media reports.