I have regular sessions of manual flying, both docking and descent. I’ve written those stories in past logbook, for example: L-357: Soyuz manual docking and L-223: Centrifuge
Periodically I have review classes on the various systems, which are also an occasion to cover any recent changes. And of course Terry, Anton and I spent quite some time in the Soyuz simulator.
Yesterday, I had one final visit at Zvezda, the company that manufactures the Sokol suits, the seat liners and all the survival suits and clothes for cold-weather and for water landing. Nothing has changed on my Sokol since I wore it last time in Baikonur, but this final check can catch any changes in the crewmember’s build. Since my weight has stayed the same, we just did a quick verification. It was actually really good to be in my own Sokol again: since I’m small, in Star City I typically get somewhat bigger suits for training. It’s good to be reminded of the challenges of donning and doffing a suit that is actually my size!
Talking about donning the suit, in this photo-album I explained step-by-step how that works:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SamanthaCristoforetti/posts/VutLr5VQQKc
Now getting ready for a six-hour Soyuz sim: no shortening and skipping of not-so-interesting portions of the flight profile today, we’ll actually fly a nominal timeline from launch to docking.
Futura mission website (Italian): Avamposto42
avamposto42.esa.int
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha/
06/08/2014