Crews of ISS-66 began an exam session

In October of the current year, another expedition should be sent to the International Space Station. For the first time, the main and duplicating crews included people of creative professions – representatives of the film crew of the “Challenge” feature film. It is expected that at the station they will spend a little less than two weeks, unlike the cosmonaut, which will deliver them to orbit. The crew commanders of the ISS-66 are actively preparing for a semi-annual expedition and have already begun examin training.

Today, August 10, 2021, the exam on the manual managed descent of the Soyuz MS ship passed the astronauts of Roscosmos Anton Sabelers and Oleg Artemyev. As a similar test, they took place in March 2021, duplicating Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov. Now the cabinarists are the commander of the main crew of the ISS-66, Artemyev – his dubler. There are no flight guards in their crews, only space flight participants.

Centrifuge’s battery simulator imitates overloads that the crew is experiencing when returning to Earth. At the examination, the astronauts demonstrate the actions algorithm that needs to be performed if the device fails during the device descent or will receive a recommendation Go to manual managed descent.

two modes are provided – static and dynamics. The two first tasks of the cosmonaut performs, being in a fixed centrifuge, two followers – when the centrifuge leads to move. If any mode, it is necessary to plant the machine with minimal overload and as close as possible to the calculation point.

According to Anton, the cabinarova, which is preparing for his fourth space flight, each time performing examination tasks becomes easier. But the expedition itself promises to become special for him, because he first delivers them on board the space station of artists and will take part in the filming of the “Challenge” feature film. Both crew are preparing to fulfill the creative task. Recall that in the main crew of the ISS-66, Actress Julia Peresilde and director-director Klim Shipenko, to the duplicating – actress Alena Mordovin and the operator-director Alexey Dudin.

/Media reports.