Anton and I both passed our manual reentry exam in the centrifuge today and are now officially qualified to fly the Soyuz reentry manually as backup crew of Expedition 40, launching in May.
In fact, this is the first of a series of qualification exams we’ll have to pass between now and early May. So, first one done!
I did get one profile with a pretty high overshoot, in which I had to “fly the centrifuge” up to 5Gs. I had flown an 8G-run before, but it is indeed a bit different when you’re trying to fly your trajectory and do your reporting to the ground.
Was fun! I’ll do it again in a few months as prime crew.
(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/
16/04/2014