November 6, 2015

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi passed exam on manual controlled descent. TS-7 specialized simulator on the basis of Tsf-7 centrifuge was designed for practicing manual controlled descent in case automatics failure.

According to Commission’s report both ISS-46/47 crew commander and flight engineer showed perfect skills while performing necessary operations.

Next week Yuri Malenchenko and Timothy Copra will pass the same training. Besides both crews will also have examination trainings on Soyuz TMA-M approaching, docking and redocking of and standard flight day training on ISS Russian segment simulator.

The main crew comprises Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra abd ESA astronaut Timothy Peake.  For Russian cosmonaut this flight will the the 6th one in his space career, American cosmonaut flies to space for the second time, the British one – for the first.

Back-up crew includes Anatoly Ivanishin (Roscosmos), Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Kathleen Rubins (NASA).

More from this category:
October 10, 2018

Today, on October 10, 2018, a traditional press conference of the “Soyuz MS-10” spacecraft crews was held at the Testing and Training Complex of the…

full story
December 21, 2019

Preparations are in process at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for launching the “Proton-M” launch vehicle with the DM-03 upper stage and “Electro-L” №3 Russian meteorological satellite….

full story
June 2, 2014

The preparation of the next manned spacecraft for the ISS flight has started in the integration building of 245 launchpad of Baikonur spaceport. Soyuz TMA-14M…

full story
December 12, 2014

ISS crew members will celebrate New year 16 times and dress the New Year tree with soft toys, – Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova reported from…

full story
April 2, 2020

At the site № 17 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome the final stage of the preparation of the ISS-63 crew for the upcoming space flight is…

full story
June 23, 2014

Flight tests of the first Russian Angara Space Rocket complex started at Russian Ministry of Defence State test spaceport  Plesetsk situated in Arkhangelsk region. The decision to…

full story
June 10, 2015

 The thrusters of Soyuz TMA-15M spaceship docked with the ISSwere unexpectedly ignited during the scheduled Kurs approaching and docking radio system testing. The ISS orbit…

full story
November 20, 2014

Russia and the United States have no plans to end joint scientific experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS), Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lev…

full story