An easy first day here in Star City. Thanks to my scheduler for the start at 11:00, which gave me a chance to sleep in after the late night arrival from Europe and gradually adjust to the three-hour sleep shift. Three hours is not much, granted. But since I’m a good candidate for having the most rigid internal clock ever observed in a human, I’ll take any help I get.
Fun day, also. Four hours at the controls of the Soyuz, first for some manual rendez-vous practice and then for some manual descent training. In the picture you can see where we practice manually flying the descent profile: the control panel and the bluish hand controller are just like the ones we have in the actual Soyuz.
Dima is the super awesome instructor assigned to our crew. He’s not only responsible for our manual reentry skills, but also for preparing us for the overall Soyuz qualification exams. He’s the one who comes up with the craziest failure scenarios to make us grow as a crew and make sure that we take good care of the Soyuz-TMA 15M later this year.
About manual reentry: in case you missed it, this older logbook has some general words. But don’t hesitate to ask any questions!
(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/
27/01/2014