Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The crews of the ISS Expedition 37/38 successfully passed the exams - Open Democracy

In the night from 25 to 26 September 2013 scheduled launch of manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-10M” with a crew of Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazan and Michael Hopkins. In connection with this comprehensive exam training primary and backup crews 37/38-y long expedition to the ISS is scheduled to be held in the Cosmonaut Training Center for four days – 2, 3, 4 and 5 September.

Today in 8 hours and 20 minutes at the backup crew MKS-37/38 (Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev , Steven Swanson) began a comprehensive examination training for a two-night (long) scheme docking with the ISS simulator ” Soyuz TMA-M ».

Training on the “short” circuit with stand-ins took place yesterday. W Lena Examination Committee commended the work of the crew on the «4,9».

crew pulled the examination card with a list of contingencies that must occur during the training “flight” on the ship. Among them were: the failure of the main VHF transmitter on a contact separation from the launch vehicle, device failure constructing the local vertical orientation when performing the maneuver, failures in the electronic system of the measuring range, “course”; depressurization lander when the disconnection, denial onboard computer system during descent; accident propulsion system when issuing a pulse on the trigger.

At 8 hours and 40 minutes of the members of the crew MKS-37/38 (Oleg Kotov, Ryazan, Sergei and Michael Hopkins) started testing on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

According cyclogram training, the crew removed the failure of the VHF receiver. The astronauts are faced with the malfunction of the system kislorodoobespecheniya with a smoke detector false alarm, with the problems in the hygienic sewage disposals (ACS). At the final stage of the exam instructors introduced to test a very difficult task – to fire on the Russian segment of the ISS, the press service of the CPC.

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