The ISS-72 crew is preparing for flight at the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Cosmonauts and their backups are undergoing final training and taking exams. This includes not only readiness for manual control of the Progress spacecraft, but also for problems during docking with the ISS in flight.
The "Don-Soyuz" simulator helps cosmonauts to practice actions in an emergency situation to automatism and pass exams. According to Roscosmos, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner have already coped perfectly with a number of emergency situations. These are:
- failure of both parts of the Kurs-NA radio telemetry system - in this case, the crew is left without data on distance and speed;
- failure of the onboard computer;
- redocking;
- hovering opposite the docking port, mooring in the shade;
- automatic flyby at a distance of less than 400 meters, switching to manual control, approaching the station, flying around the ISS, mooring and docking;
- emergency, increased speed of the ship's approach to the station.
The next exam on manual controlled descent for cosmonauts is on August 13.
A conclusion has already been made on the suitability of Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, as well as their backups Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, for space flight.
Two Russian cosmonauts, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, will leave Earth on the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft on September 11.
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