Maxim Kharlamov, Head of the Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu.A. Gagarin (Yu.A. Gagarin CTC, part of Roscosmos), spoke about the preparations for the start of training on Earth for the first cosmonauts for the Russian Orbital Station (ROS).
In an interview with TASS, he noted that work on the ROS simulators will begin in 2025. In 2027, the first of these training aids are planned to be placed in the CTC hall. It already houses a complex of simulators that mimic the Russian segment of the ISS.
This will be a complex with a common dispatching of training sessions, with a single computing center that will provide all simulators with standard models of space objects.
The first to be manufactured will be a training model of the ROS scientific and energy module, but Kharlamov noted that the CTC also plans to create a simulator on which it will be possible to practice manual control modes of ships. The hydro lab, in which cosmonauts practice spacewalks and solve extravehicular activity (EVA) tasks, will not be re-equipped for ROS.
The hydro lab allows you to quickly change the composition of the modules that are in the water, on which cosmonauts train. If required, we will be able to train in parallel both on the tasks of the EVA of the Russian segment of the ISS and on the tasks of the Russian Orbital Station.
The launch of the first scientific and energy module of the ROS, as well as the launch of its simulator at the CTC, is scheduled for 2027. It is already known how the selection of cosmonauts for the first visit to the ROS will take place. Priority will be given to those who have many flights and emergency situations of various kinds behind them.
