Another type of tests for astronauts has been added to survival in the desert, in the winter forest and on the water: now future conquerors of orbits practice actions during an emergency landing in mountainous terrain, training takes place in the Caucasus mountains.
This test is not just a test of endurance, the trajectory of future manned launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome will partially pass over the mountains.
The plot of Natalia Burtseva, the participants of the campaign: rescuers of the Tuapse detachment "Centrospas" Alexey Savchenko and Konstantin Rastegaev, cosmonauts Anna Kikina, Oleg Blinov, Andrey Fedyaev, Sergey Korsakov, Dmitry Petelin.
Personnel:
Kikina A.Yu. - hydraulic engineer, test cosmonaut, Master of Sports of the Russian Federation in polyathlon and rafting. Blinov O.V. - test cosmonaut, aircraft engineer, lieutenant colonel of the Air Force Reserve, head of the department for the creation of complex simulators of the manned transport ship of the Gagarin Space Center. Fedyaev A.V. - pilot-engineer, reserve major, test cosmonaut. Korsakov S.V. - engineer, cosmonaut-test scientist of the Yuri Gagarin Research Institute of the Central Research Center. D.A. Petelin is a Russian test cosmonaut, design engineer.
Calendar: 11.01.2014