LOCATION: Star City, Russia
DURATION: 1 Day
AVAILABILITY: Available now
REQUIRED TRAINING: None
Train for a spacewalk on land or under water.
Neutral Buoyancy (Water-based) Spacewalk Training
Train for a spacewalk under water in the neutral buoyancy “hydrolab” under the direction of dozens of trainers, including several professional divers. The hydrolab training features the following:
Full-scale mock-up of the International Space Station
Neutral buoyancy to roughly simulate weightlessness outside of the ISS
Learn how to operate an Orlan spacewalk spacesuit used by the cosmonauts
Ground-based Spacewalk Training
Train for a spacewalk on land in this ground-based training that simulates what it feels like to move around outside of the ISS while tethered to it in an Orlan spacewalk spacesuit.
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