Jump to astronauts

"It looks like this: separate, lay on the stream, I decide Card N 32. 10 plus 18, total: 28. There is much quicker everything is solved ", – says candidate astronauts Sviatoslav Morozov. In a new set of Sviatoslav astronaut Morozov behind more than twenty jumps. After landing he stood on the dome "wing". An indispensable condition for all new recruits the cosmonaut to be tested parachutes. On a flight to the astronauts aboard the plane taking the recorder to keep a report about what's going on, what landmarks they see on the ground. In addition to this within 40 seconds of free fall, they have to solve the space card. But when the parachute will open, a new introduction: to speculate, for example, space and love. This time, a small town airport in Tatarstan gathered Menzelinsk real masters of the sky. The astronauts and instructors CPC took off ten times a day. Nearby, on the accuracy of landing the Russian team coached by skydiving. The plane climbs. Each astronaut on the arm has its own card with a special mission. But look at it only in the sky. Near the instructor: controls every action and removes the jump for the camera. – Card N32, the first scale … In free fall, Ivan Wagner solves the puzzle, while commenting on tape their actions. Then the air exercises: rotations, spirals and even somersaults. The main thing to watch for altitude. Disclosure of the wing, now control a parachute and landing. On the ground, they meet the instructor training center, the Hero of Russia Viktor root. He has thousands of jumps, all conceivable test of survival: in the forest, the sea, in the desert. – Calculations do. You should have come out in the area of the landing. Among the instructors really legendary person: Irina Solovieva Boyanovna, five-time world champion skydiving. In 1963 – the main understudy, Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut. After years of love to the cosmos is not cool. Here it is as a psychologist CPC provides a so-called brainstorming session in the fall. "And most importantly, that the astronaut must endure here – it's confidence. That in such difficult conditions, he may work ", – concludes psychologist Cosmonaut Training Centre. YA Gagarin Irina Solovieva. "There is no doubt that at the time of free fall hard to think. Our task is to prove the opposite – thinking up and down are not there yet, "- said the candidate astronauts Sviatoslav Morozov. It would seem, for which the astronaut parachute? Especially math puzzle in free fall? After he returned from space in the landing vehicle. But just to such tests can be understood will the future astronaut satisfied it simultaneously two problems: the work head and hands. "People are disconnected from one task, forgetting that they were under the dome of the parachute, and seemed to be sitting in class, solve the problem which is not less important", – says head of parachute training, Hero of Russia Viktor root. In such exercises honed skill of any situation. When the ground rushes towards the solution must be found within seconds. You can tell a simulated school stress. "During free fall, as scary when you feel a chill when you fly at a speed to land in conditions of stress – it is very important," – emphasizes the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Valery Korzun. The cosmonaut and Hero of Russia Valery Korzun says: a sense of confidence in the space flight itself does not come, it must be worked out. For myself know who confidently jumping – successfully flies. "The ability to concentrate under pressure. For example, a missile launch. The astronaut must discard all the emotions, concentrate on the job. Mutual aid and the ability to work actively. Nets can be seen immediately. If it is a net here, 90% of what it will be a net in space ", – says Valery Korzun. This magnificent seven already in the astronaut. Pilots, engineers, designers – as if a single crew for a new manned Russian spacecraft. "By the end of this decade will create a ship for six people, just our group and even with the stock," – says the candidate astronauts Andrew Babkin. Perhaps in this ship there is a place for women, today, the only astronaut. Yelena Serova proves every day that it is representative of beauty, but not the weaker sex. The same jumps and assignment. All on equal terms. "Lena is now all turns out, it works great in the air, it is excellent reporting. She's ready. Tremendous progress "- admires the success of Victor Serova root. Jump in the suit. Running in tandem with an instructor. It is also an ordeal, but without the puzzles. Future explorers orbit control the parachute to the full space of ammunition is unlikely to be needed. But this is a real opportunity to understand that he felt the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the world half a century ago, returning to his native land. "Put the problem, we will perform. Tasked with jumping round the dome, we leaped, then move to the new system. Then next task: to fly a spacecraft "Soyuz". Set, fly, did. Next will be a new device to the moon and Mars "- explains what the work of a cosmonaut, Sviatoslav Morozov. This is only a small height, which the young astronauts already resigned. To orbit more years of training and testing.