February 5, 2016
Categories: GCTC, JAXA, NASA, Roscosmos, Russia, Space

One more ISS crew successfully completed training on survival in marshy and forested area. For three days Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky, NASA astronaut Randolph Bresnik and JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai  have been accomplishing the tasks set under severe weather conditions.

According to Sergey Ryazansky who passed winter survival training for the fourth time it is much easier “to survive” under frosty conditions when the temperature outside is -25°С than during the thaw when matches and wood so necessary for the training dampen. The cosmonauts set a camp, built shelters of two kinds, practiced cooperation with search and rescue teams and coped with the off-nominal medical situation rendering to “injured” crew member.

More from this category:
July 4, 2013

Moscow, July 3 – RIA Novosti. Russian resource-P Earth remote sensing satellite launched on June 25, 2013 sent its first test photo shots to the…

full story
August 25, 2016

On Wednesday, August 24, prime crew of Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft comprising crew commander Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos) and flight engineers Andrei Borisenko (Roscosmos) and Robert Shane Kimbrough…

full story
August 21, 2018

A month and a half before the start, the main ISS-57/58 crew traditionally started an important stage – the pre-flight exam session. In the first…

full story
April 22, 2014

The launch of Russian-German SPACE observatory designed to study black holes, galactic clusters and dark matter was shifted to 2017 since German specialists fail to…

full story
May 26, 2014

Today, on May 26, space rocket going to orbit Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft with ISS-40/41 mission crew onboard on May 28 was installed on #1 launching pad…

full story
October 9, 2013

The next launch of “Rokot” will take place on November 14, 2013 from Plesetsk Spaceport Ministry of Defense press office management representative for Aerospace Defense…

full story
January 18, 2019

The “Proton-M” launch vehicle is ready for shipment to the Baikonur cosmodrome for preparation under the “Spectrum-RG” program. Dispatch of launch devices including “Proton-M” launch…

full story
February 4, 2014

Soyuz-U booster with Progress M-22M was installed onto the launch pad of Baikonur spaceport. The launch is scheduled for February 5, 2014, Roscosmos reports. In…

full story