Cosmonauts work out skills of extracurricular activities

Wednesday, June 2, 2021, Roscosmos Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov made an exit to open space, successfully completing all scheduled work. The duration of extracurricular activities was 7 hours 19 minutes. For both cosmonauts, it was the first way out.

To the Expedition on the ISS, the skills of performing such operations Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov were worked out under water – during the test in the hydraborette, the Center for the training of astronauts. According to their colleagues, the opportunity to try their strength and apply knowledge under conditions approximate to real – one of the most effective elements of preparation for the ECD.

In addition to typical and abnormal situations in the hydraborette, we work out specific operations that have to be performed during the exit to open space, including the integration of the “Science” module into the Russian segment of the ISS and on the introduction of the ERA manipulator. – Sergey Korsakov told Sosmonaut Roscosmos. – It brings colossal benefits, because you get an idea how in general everything will happen, remember your route, the sequence of actions. Muscle memory is also produced during operations. It is very good that we again have the opportunity to conduct tests in the hydrolyboratory. ”

Extraked activities of astronauts are engaged in a pair and prepare for it too together. This week, Sergey Korsakov was Dmitry Perezin. Each immersion of astronauts lasted on average five hours. Some elements of extracurricular activities can be worked out in conditions of short-term weightlessness when flying on the IL -76 MDC laboratory laboratory. But only classes in the hydraboretory allow you to implement the entire process of performing a particular operation.

“workouts on the plane may give more idea of weightlessness, but here we fully work out operations. We study what you have to do, which tool will need to be needed, where we will install the equipment which connectors will have to be allowed. Before us is the model of the corresponding module . All this makes it possible to generally submit a lot of hours in open space, “Sergey Korsakov explained.

The severity of the skateland, water pressure, intense physical work and even the pain that have arisen from too tightly stretched gloves – the cosmonaut admitted that no of them of these factors spoiled the overall impression from working under water.

“For me, this is a big holiday in fact, because such activities contrasts with our daily life. Performed interesting tasks,” said Korsakov. “It’s very easy to imagine yourself at work in open space and dream about it.”

Test work in the hydrolyboratories make it possible not only to work out the promising tasks of extracurricular activities, but also support the skills needed by astronauts.

/Media reports.