Cosmonauts are taught to survive.

Cosmonauts are taught to survive.
Writes RIDUS-NEWS
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At this moment on the territory of the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yuri Gagarin completed the second day of training on the autonomous actions of the crew of the spacecraft after landing in the forest and marshland in winter.



Training began in the afternoon on January 30 and will end February 1. According to legend, the lander has made an emergency landing in an unplanned site. The main task of the crew consisting of two Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut John Cassidy save lives and health in extreme conditions.



Pavel Vinogradov. Hero of Russia. Crew commander. On account of his 2 flight into space



Alexander Misurkin. In April 2013, scheduled for its first flight into space



John Cassidy. One flight into space.

Survival training have begun after 1965 cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev landed in Perm taiga. Rescuers were able to get to them only on the third day.



According to the plan of training the astronauts have to build a shelter, build a fire and mark their location with the help of a fire alarm or signal cartridges.



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With the help of this here machetes, astronauts can hack even large trees.



Food, water, first aid kit and other necessary equipment are part of the portable emergency (NAE). Its content corresponds exactly to what is real descent module.



According to the head of department on extreme training cosmonauts Alexander Herman, of Naz allows astronauts to expect rescue for two days at a temperature of -50 to + 50.



Training takes place in preparation for the crew under the command of Pavel Vinogradov for a space mission, scheduled for April 2013.



A small press conference in a pitched astronauts tepee.

Despite the seeming ease, this training takes a lot of the crew. At the end of the second day people physically and emotionally exhausted. If we add to this adaptation after weightlessness, you can imagine what forces should organize such an emergency camp.
According to legend, exercises, which will end tomorrow, rescuers will come to communicate with astronauts tonight and tomorrow afternoon "evacuate" them to the mainland.

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