Indian astronauts complete training for Gaganyaan mission |
Despite the COVID -19 pandemic across the globe, India`s first manned a space mission is well on its course as the four Indian astronauts training in Russia for the Gaganyaan project are doing well and are “determined to continue with their training”. The information was released in a statement by Russian space corporation ROSCOSMOS on Thursday. The training of the astronauts which started in February at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, but was put on hold due to the COVID -19 pandemic, had resumed in May. The statement said that they are “following the courses of the general space training programme and of the systems of the Soyuz MS crewed spacecraft” and are scheduled to complete their training by the first quarter of 2021. ROSCOSMOS said that till now, the “Indian cosmonauts have completed training on crew actions in the event of an abnormal descent module landing” on various surfaces. The training for landing in “wooded and marshy areas in winter” was completed in February, and for landing on “the water surface” was completed in June. In July, the four astronauts also completed the abnormal descent module landing “in the steppe in summer”. In June “the Indian astronauts passed training in short-term weightlessness mode aboard the IL-76MDK special laboratory aircraft, and in July, they were trained to lift aboard a helicopter while evacuating from the descent module landing point.
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