It turned out that we have excellent students! “,” Shared his impressions from the first joint training session the commander of a duplicate crew of the ISS-66 cosmonaut Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev. On the eve of his colleagues on the upcoming expedition associated with the preparation of the scientific and educational project “Challenge”, a comprehensive exercise on the simulator of the piloted ship “Union of MS” was passed using Sokol Spacks.
In the course of training, the crew as part of the astronaut Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, the film operator “Call” Alexey Dudina and Alena Mordovina actress worked out a regular program of the ship’s flight to the station for a short two-ventilation scheme. Preparation for the start and removal of the ship “Union of MS” in orbit, checking the tightness of the compartments and the ship systems after separation from the carrier rocket, maneuver with the transition to rapprochement, flights and preparation for docking with the station – at all stages, the crew acted competently and together.
Oleg Artemyev, being in the central chair of the descent apparatus, does not have the ability to get to all ship management authorities. One of the options for solving this problem is to impose some functions on those who take the neighboring chairs. During the training session Alena Mordovin, sitting on the right, led to work, including the valves of the oxygen supply to the volume of the descent apparatus, controlled the condensate pumping. When checking the sweaters on the tightness, Alexey Dudin worked with a valve that serves oxygen into the spacesuit.
Cosmonaut added that he was lucky: in his carriage – people are targeted, who love to learn.
In total, the main and duplicating crews of the ISS-66 planned six such joint training at the simulator of the Soyuz MS ship.