March 3, 2014
Categories: GCTC, ISS, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz

ISS-39/40 crews are having very important preflight training stage in GCTC now. During previous 2 weeks cosmonauts and astronauts have been passing exams on manual docking, approaching and descending of Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and practiced manual remote control mode.

According to the program for space flight preparations main and back-up crews have to experience standard flight day.

On February 27 the main crew of ISS 39/40 mission consisting of Alexander Skvortsov (Roscosmos), Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos) and Stephen Swanson (NASA) practiced full standard working day. The cosmonauts performed the program planned, in the course of program accomplishment they faced a number of off-nominal situations.

A day earlier back-up crew members (Alexander Samokutyaev, Elena Serova(Roscosmos), Barry Wilmore(NASA) had similar training.

Following the results of this standard flight day trainings commission gave an estimate of crews’ work.

Training participants accomplished all tasks in accordance with the time schedule.
On march 4 and 5 main and back up crews will have complex examination trainings on Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft simulator and ISS Russian segment simulator.

Soyuz TMA-12M will be launched on March 26, 2014.

Image credit – Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

More from this category:
November 27, 2020

A series of ISS elements is already damaged, there will be a numerous breakdowns starting from 2025, thut it makes sense to focus on national…

full story
April 8, 2020

The State Commission for conducting flight tests of manned space systems, chaired by Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of Roscosmos State Corporation, approved the composition of…

full story
February 3, 2014

XXII Winter Olympic Games start in a week. The story of choosing Sochi as Olympic Capital started in 2007. The application was supported from space…

full story
June 26, 2013

Russian Soyuz ST-V booster launched from European Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana set O3b Networks satellites providing inexpensive internet access into the orbit. The process…

full story
August 21, 2014

According to the ordiring party’s request the launch of Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-M upper stage and two European Galileo FOC space devices from Guiana Space…

full story
August 20, 2014

On August 18, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev performed a spacewalk.  The cosmonauts started working at 18.02, Moscow time, and successfully completed the…

full story
July 4, 2024

Russia has conducted 125 accident-free rocket launches over the past five years, which is the best indicator in the world. This was announced by Yuri…

full story
December 3, 2013

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree on creation of United Rocket and Space Corporation on the basis of JSC “Scientific research institute for space…

full story