Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK)

at Zvezdnyy Gorodok (Star City)

  A lot of training is done the old fasioned way, in a lecture hall. Here James Voss listens to a presentation.
Training in the Mir base block trainer  
Mike Foale seen here training on equipment in the Mir trainer.  
  Everyone living on Mir must train for emergency landings in the Soyuz TM. Here is one of the trainers.
The centrifuge has a capsule simulator at its far end. Cosmanaut candidates are tested here, along with equipment to very high G levels.  
  Shannon Lucid tries on a launch and entry Sokol pressure suit while weightlessness in a Russian training aircraft.


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