Happy Sunday everyone!
Here in Star City these past few weeks several crews have done their winter survival training. Some have faced temperatures as low as 30°C as they spent two nights outdoors in the woods!
This has brought back memories of my own winter survival training two years ago. At that time I wasn’t assigned to an ISS expedition yet, but I was undergoing training as the ESA reserve astronaut. My “crew” included my fellow Shenanigan +Thomas Pesquet and one of the 2009 cosmonaut candidates – now a fully qualified cosmonaut – Sergey, the latter serving as our Commander for the three days we spent outdoors. We had a great time together and we were very lucky with the weather: there wasn’t too much snow on the ground and temperatures only dropped to -15°C in the nights!
I have taken some time today to select and upload some pictures, that you can find here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrosamantha/sets/72157630256920188/
And if you want to know more about how we spent those two days, here’s my assccount from two years ago:
https://blogs.esa.int/astronauts/2012/01/30/surviving-the-russian-winter/
(Italian translation by @disinformatico here:
https://attivissimo.blogspot.ru/2012/07/samantha-cristoforetti-prima-astronauta.html?m=1)
(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/
02/02/2014