Fit for space - Soyuz training

In the first episode of our ‘Fit for space’ training series, ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano share how crewmembers prepare for their journey to the International Space Station in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Training for the critical moments of Soyuz spaceflight - launch, ascent, docking and landing - take place at Roscosmos’ Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Here, astronauts use sophisticated Soyuz simulators to practice procedures and respond to emergency situations.
The Soyuz simulators at GCTC are designed to act and be operated in exactly the same way as the spacecraft itself. Astronauts must demonstrate their proficiency in manually controlling the Soyuz to prepare for the unlikely event that automated and ground-based operations fail.
They also prepare for emergency events that could occur onboard the International Space Station itself.
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[@SingalekSMW]

Space fascinates me a lot! Proud to be italian! Grandissimi Luca e Samantha!!! vi adoro!

[@irisg-a7419]

Fit for space! Wow!! And 90 min. after launch, Luca, Drew, Alex, enjoy your flight!!

[@aghilanmayan97]

AFTER LAUNCH I AM HERE ...EXCELLENT I love you @ESA ❤

[@RahulSingh-cx6pg]

Feeling happy after seeing all this. GoD Bless ESA / NASA. Love from INDIA.

[@danielrafreddy]

It is not NASA.

[@giovannacuttica9227]

Sarà perché sono ‘nostri’, ma abbiamo degli astronautica che sono dei comunicatori formidabili 👏‼️👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 GRAZIE ESA‼️

[@SpaceMog]

I

[@The-Muslim-Samurai]

Cringe.

[@Mike500]

What's also amazing: If they fly the Soyuz, no matter what country they're from, they have to learn Russian. And not just a little, they have to be at least on an "intermediate high" level, in what isn't exactly the easiest language to learn (depening on their first language). The reason: All commands from the flight control center are in Russian, and the commander on board is always a Russian. Especially during the critical manual docking phase, there is a constant stream of instructions in Russian coming from the ground, and the astronauts have to comment everything they do in Russian as well.

[@zeendaniels5809]

Which would you say is the best first language to have to learn Russian?

[@Mike500]

Any of the slavic languages like Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian etc.

[@zeendaniels5809]

@@Mike500 I thought so... Anyone who speaks a romance language will have a hard time learning it then 😂

[@sowhat249]

@@zeendaniels5809 | It will be challenging, yes, but not extremely hard. For English speakers, Russian is not even in the top 10 hardest major world languages. It's in the same greater family as most European languages, the Indo-European group, so Imagine learning Swahili or Arabic. Or Chinese for that matter.

[@frankthespank]

Yeah, that’s stupid. In the world of aviation the ONLY language allowed is English, must be why Russia doesn’t have a single airliner certified to fly outside of Russia. WHY make everyone learn an archaic language that has no use outside of these old space capsules that are rapidly becoming obsolete? Most people know English already, having to learn Russian is really a step backward and just shows how egotistical Russia is. That may work out for them when they had the only ride into space but that isn’t the case anymore.

[@rhysbigfoot8750]

Incredible video, looking forward for the future !

[@Lionfish5656]

Soyuz is a great programme that managed to launch on the same day as Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, 50 years later. I hope that history will look back as fondly as Soyuz MS-13 as they did with the Apollo 11 mission 50 years earlier because it speaks to the longevity, reliability, trust & Russian domination of space regarding Soyuz. It has outlived Apollo by slightly more than forty years & is set to live about 50 years longer than Apollo.

[@jshepard152]

Yeah, it goes 150 miles high instead of 250,000. Definitely superior.

[@aerodynamic1440]

@@jshepard152 The Soyuz programme launched rockets around 1900 times with 95+% of success rate, Soyuz was the only way to get into space, most reliable. Tell me how is it not MILES superior to the loong dead Apollo programme?

[@jshepard152]

@@aerodynamic1440 If you don't know the answer to that, why are you even here?!

[@aghilanmayan97]

Love from INDIA🇮🇳🚀

[@markomax9999]

Such a delightful, informative video. 10X better than any NASA promo bs.

[@maheshpatel3738]

Very deeply training ESA Very good & Power full technology

[@pasciullogiovanni170]

Bella Samantha nostra si riparte 🙏🏻 Luca e tu sei un grande 👍🏻 💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@DarkH4X0]

Amo questi video! Nei prossimi giorni proverò ad aggiungere dei sottotitoli in italiano, affinché possano diffondersi ancora di più. Thanks for sharing ♥️🚀

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheJoksmar]

Thanks yor very much for let us see the training part! Very interesting video!

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thanks for watching!

[@Thefuryyt8925]

Love your work from all where it doesn't matter from which country you are but it mattere that you work in space for humans (humanity)

[@DeepBoiledSushi]

2:41 *Astronauts looking for who is spamming the sticky keys*

[@balbeersinghdanu]

Thanks for sharing ;)

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thanks for watching!

[@wonderwoman_11]

Thanks for sharing it with us😊 this is real rocket science🚀✨👌

[@Ale30san]

Спасибо за такой прекрасный фильм о Звёздном Городке!!!

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@Ale30san]

@@EuropeanSpaceAgency it is very interesting!

[@hritikjuyal5484]

I think Vyomanauts from India will be coming to Star City for Training, for Gaganyaan mission.

[@jitendrakhasiya2645]

Thank you esa

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thank you for watching, Jitendra!

[@mr.underhill2792]

Wow really interesting and soyuzful

[@abbie96]

Gorgeous 💙

[@pokergroupdigital5290]

Orlan suit?! That was a Sokol spacesuit

[@Reactordrone]

2:52 Should that be Sokol rather than Orlan?

[@ayushgupta4363]

#soyuz is the best

[@gonzaloreyes8782]

Two of the famous person in Italy

[@dalilacastaneda1225]

Un saludo para nuestros astronautas y un saludo para quienes estan en tierra responsables de ellos. Bendiciones. Yo quisiera estar alla arriba con ustedes!!!!

[@aghilanmayan97]

I want to visit ESA this is my life goal😊😊😊🙂🙂😇😇😇#ESA

[@SpaceMog]

We have an open day where it's open to the public. 6th October 2019 for estec and there will be one at ESAC for the first time this year but the date is not set yet. www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/October_s_ESA_Open_Day_looks_to_the_Moon

[@aghilanmayan97]

thank you so much.... that so nice of you.....Are you working @esa

[@aghilanmayan97]

But i am from india how can i reach ?

[@SpaceMog]

Ive been working at ESAC in madrid for 3 years now :)

[@SpaceMog]

@@aghilanmayan97 its open to anyone

[@RAMBHAKTDESHPREMI]

Love from India

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Love back from space!

[@hornetluca]

My name is _Luca_

[@guerriero_shardana]

Samantha 😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍

[@kmbrlylwg8440]

I really want to be an astronaut 😍

[@PercivalGervacio]

wow.. very tough training..

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Space is a tough place to be

[@airplanewhat5316]

Bravi orgoglio italiano!

[@damangrewal4455]

Pls make me a astranaut

[@sameehabanu6791]

Finally I saw her hair looks normal😁

[@user-ft2fn4fs1s]

Союза уже нет, а Союз жив до сих пор. Всех нас когда то не будет, важно лишь то, что мы оставим после себя.

[@f-s-r]

You need to have your knees flexed like that the whole flight? How much time is that?

[@SpaceMog]

it takes 6hrs to get to the ISS, but it used to take 2days so we've come a long way o_0

[@Finni1701]

@@SpaceMog And even today you can't take the 6h "version" every time. Sometimes it still takes 2 days even today. You can go into the orbital module however so you don't have to "sit" there for two days straight

[@SpaceMog]

@@Finni1701 right! it's still a long time though..not for the claustrophobic!

[@shigidaropupaypups5236]

Cosmonauts are fixed in logements only during launch and re-entry, to resist high G-force. It is near 10 minutes to start and near 30 minutes to go down. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3uzc2B8bahkbJo

[@CMYUJAMES]

I see.. when you have a fire or smoke in the cabin. just open the hatch

[@shigidaropupaypups5236]

do not forget to hold a breath before ;-)

[@rochakbhargava7654]

Same place where indian astronauts are being trained

[@manuelvalenti7782]

E che man in black?