For the cosmonaut candidates of the 2018 recruitment (Konstantin Borisov, Alexander Gorbunov, Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Zubritsky, Sergey Mikayev, Kirill Peskov, Oleg Platonov and Evgeny Prokopyev), the most important test in their space career is over – recently they passed State exam and are now awaiting the decision of the commission on awarding them the title of “test cosmonaut”.
It is very symbolic that the future conquerors of space received sincere congratulations on passing the exam from their senior squadmates not only on Earth – words of support and good words of advice were also said from the International Space Station. On Thursday evening, when the cosmonauts on the ISS ended their working day, and their colleagues at the Cosmonaut Training Center had classes and trainings, an online meeting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov with their teammates took place.
Astronauts from near-earth orbit shared news and events that had happened in their lives during six weeks of space flight with their colleagues, and from Earth at the Cosmonaut Training Center they were interested in the sensations and impressions of the station commander and flight engineer from weightlessness, from their first spacewalk. and of course we said hello to our foreign partners working at the station.