| Basic Training Report, January 2000
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Training conducted in Russia for two weeks is reported here.
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Training on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station |
Astronaut candidates received lectures on the International Space Station
(ISS) and Soyuz components developed by Russia, the basic functional module
Zarya and the service module Zvezda, from Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
(GCTC) instructors, at GCTC. They also received lectures on the Russian
Soyuz spacecraft that carry astronauts between the ISS and the Earth. They
also received training in the Zarya, Zvezda and Soyuz simulators.
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Lectures
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Zarya simulator
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Soyuz simulator
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Land survival training |
Through land survival training, astronauts acquire skills needed to survive
until they are rescued in the event of emergency landing, which could occur
during launch or re-entry into the atmosphere from space. This second survival
training, following water survival training held in July 1997, assumes
a landing on mid winter taiga.
Astronauts received lectures and hands-on training on how to escape from
the return capsule, how to use the survival kits in the return capsule,
how to build a shelter, how to make and maintain a fire, how the severe
environment affects the human body, medical themes such as symptoms of
injury and diseases and how to use the emergency kit, how to select camping
locations, how to obtain food and water, sending rescue signals using the
emergency radio and smoke/flare signals, and how to move on frozen lakes
and in mountain. They then conducted three days of field training in the
Moscow suburbs, where the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees C.
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Three day field training
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Shelter they built
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@The next basic training report will be issued in early March.
Last Updated : February 17, 2000
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