Today’s training seems to be focused not so much on technical content, but rather on some aspects of functioning well as a human being, both on the ground and on ISS.
I’ll start the day in a few minutes with my highly-anticipated briefing on sleep shifting. We sleep shift a lot in training, because of all the travel between training locations in different continents, but also on orbit, typically to support the arrival of new crewmembers or resupply vehicles.
Key in sleep shifting is of course… sleeping. How good that my next class will be about the crew quarters on ISS. In the picture you can see my fellow Shenanigan Luca Parmitano sleeping in his crew quarters on orbit!
Then I’ll have a short class highlighting the procedures to be followed by crewmembers to download personal fotos and videos from ISS. Nothing ever gets lost, but following certain procedures ensures that you’ll get certain material back quicker when you get back, for example to use it for post-flight presentations.
In the afternoon, on to a class about the Periodic Fitness Evaluation that we do on orbit. And finally, one more class on Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
08/08/2013