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What if any other timelines do ISS astronauts train for outside of emergency scenarios?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJFKMno/ This video shows Saturday housekeeping including vacuuming out vents , removing stains and disinfecting high touch surfaces. Is there a timeline of other ...
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What is the point of having both ARGOS and the nbl?
ARGOS stands for Active Response Gravity Offload System. It is a specialized robot that can offload all your weight or a certain portion of it to simulate weightlessness or lunar or Martian gravity ...
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How much time do astronauts spend in the SVMF vs the SSTF relative to each other during their training before an ISS expedition?
I understand the SVMF (space vehicle mockup facility) is where they have very high fidelity mockups but don’t train for software much but that’s where they do train for emergency drills and ...
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What is the composition of training in the SVMF?
I know the majority of astronaut training takes place in the space vehicle mock up facility. How is it broken down in what they train for in mockups of ISS modules? How is it broken up between the ...
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Why is the mission specific training shorter for lunar missions than ISS missions?
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/about-the-job/mission-specific-training.asp Follow this link for my source. I thought it would be the other way around.
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What would be the best way to train astronauts for EVAs in fractional gravity?
I know astronauts train for microgravity on earth orbit EVAs underwater in the NBL? Would this work with adjustments in how they are balanced so they stay near the bottom but sink in show motion to ...
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Is there anything that could happen in space where the astronauts would experience their hypoxia symptoms but wouldn't be an absolute death sentence?
In other words what's the point of the training session where astronauts in training experience hypoxia in a controlled environment in a decompression chamber? Would that be for the event of a ...
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What does the world look like to astronauts in a neutral buoyancy pool?
This photo of Samantha Cristoforetti in NBL training shows the distorted minification of her head through the curved visor. Cropped head photos of her and a nearby diver give an approximately 25% ...
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Would astronauts still have to go through survival and physiological training if the T38 was no longer part of their training?
Or is the survival and physiological training only relevant to if they have to eject from the T38? And not relevant to anything that could happen on the actual mission?
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If modern space capsules don't have a parachute bail out system the way the shuttle did why do astronauts still train for parachute jumps into water?
Or do they not and only other aspects of water survival? I've seen them being dropped into the NBL from height on recent resource reels. Source:
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Do all astronauts train in the NBL or only those who will actually be taking spacewalks?
I'm asking out of curiosity. It would make sense if they did even if they trained for general EVA operations and if they wouldn't actually be performing a spacewalk didn't do mission specific EVA ...
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Is the centrifuge still part of astronaut training?
It historically has been. Has that changed over time?
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Do all astronaut candidates have to train to work Canadarm 2?
Or is that only mission specific training after they've officially graduated into the astronaut corps?
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Do astronaut candidates do EVA training underwater in the NBL before they're even officially part of the astronaut corps?
Or is that only for mission specific training for astronauts who will be taking spacewalks?
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Is it true that astronauts often comment that the real spacewalk is actually easier than rehearsals in the NBL?
Over on Quora a querent asks "Could space suits function underwater?" Jonathan Miller, in his answer, says ...we often hear how easy the real spacewalk was compared to the pool. ("We,&...
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