Exercises for the ISS mission included training underwater to simulate spacewalks, responding to emergencies aboard the space station and practicing docking manoeuvres on a flight simulator.
NASA has been relying for years on Russian rockets and spacecraft to transport personnel to the space station. Reuters was given rare access at Houston’s Johnson Space Centre to NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke, and Boeing astronaut and test pilot Christopher Ferguson, who will crew the ISS mission, along with other astronauts training for future missions. The exercises included training underwater to simulate spacewalks, responding to emergencies aboard the space station and practicing docking manoeuvres on a flight simulator.
The design “is a great compromise between keeping it minimalistic yet at the same time giving the pilot the ability to understand where am I, where do I need to be, how am I going to get there, if things go wrong how do I fix them. It comes down to watching behaviour,”said Ferguson, who led NASA’s final space shuttle mission in 2011 and spent more than 40 days in space over his career. “We just want to make sure it doesn’t throw us a curve ball.
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