Maybe you remember that last December Anton and I went to Energia to do the acceptance verification of the Soyuz that will bring Max, Reid and my fellow Shenanigan Alex to space end of May. As I wrote back then, it’s quite a rare treat for non Russians to be able to go. Well, it happened again!
Anton, Terry and myself we got to go as a crew this morning to the acceptance verification of our own Soyuz! Now that hasn’t happened in years, we’ve been told. I’ll let you read about the acceptance verification in the L-358 logbook.
But let me tell you, even if the task was the same, it was a very different feeling to be inside our own spaceship. How you can instantly be in love with a collection of metal, hoses and cables! She’s just a beauty.
In the afternoon, we had a fire sim with Terry and Anton in preparation for the upcoming Soyuz exam. A fire scenario is one of the most rushed and complex, so we thought it was a good idea to practice it again. You can read more about fire on the Soyuz in this previous logbook.
We also got all kinds of small and big malfunction making our life hard, but hey… we can take it by now. As a crew we’re as prepared as we’ll be!
Photo: our instructor Dima at the control panel as our descent module simulator starts filling with smoke.
(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/
24/04/2014