The astronaut candidates said their days in Houston are very busy, they are trained by three organizations: NASA, Axiom and SpaceX, and their schedules are well planned.
Reserve astronaut Gyula Cerini said that NASA is specially preparing them for life on the space station, SpaceX is responsible for preparing for boarding the space station, and Axiom is responsible for ensuring additional conditions for the mission. In his words, home training provides a very good basis for training.
Tibor Capo talked about how when he first got into the mock-up of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, he found it too cramped, and thought it was difficult how to take off a spacesuit with four people cramped in a small space.
Everything must be relearned
Giula Serini noted that an important element of NASA training is preparing for everyday jobs, such as preparing food, washing dishes, using the bathroom, packing, and bedding. These basic things that seem so simple are made much more difficult than before, as they are given 35-step instructions to complete each task.
Tibor Capo believes that the most impressive part of their entire training is that they had to relearn everything from eating to sleeping. He mentioned cleaning as an example.
Even vacuuming is a very complicated task in space, as they have to ask permission from the ground crew, although it is important to vacuum the crumbs, because in weightlessness they can cling to the airflow and clog the filters or fly into the eyes of the astronauts.
It is detailed.
On board the space station, all basic living conditions that could be considered available on Earth must be created. “Therefore, it is necessary to create an air current that takes body heat away from us, it is necessary to solve the problem so that the sweaty and exhaled steam also reaches the filtration systems,” the astronaut recounted the challenges.
In response to a question about the meal, Tibor Capo said that there is a menu of 200 items that NASA astronauts can eat on board the space station, MTI reported. The crew must try the food before traveling into space. He noted that their first difficult moment was during training, when they had to taste 70 foods in a row, albeit in small pieces.
The most dangerous looks
In addition to the Hungarian astronaut, the four-person Ax-4 mission crew will also include: American Peggy Whitson, Indian Shuhanshu Shukla, and Polish Slawosz Oznanski. Peggy Whitson will be in command, Shukla will be the pilot, and Oznanski will serve with her as a mission specialist, Tibor Capo said. She praised Commander Peggy Whitson and said that this will be her fifth space flight, as she has spent 675 days in space so far, and has great experience, experience, and work ethic.
Speaking about the training, Gyula Sereni also mentioned that most of their training is the same as with Tibor Capo, and he also learns all the experiences so that he can provide support from the ground during the mission. In response to a question, Tibor Capo also spoke about the most dangerous moments of the mission,
He mentioned launch first, then landing, and docking third.
Referring to docking, he said it is a long process, which can take at least 7 but up to 48 hours for the space capsule to reach the station, so it is possible to drift in space for two days.
The interview also revealed that the two astronaut candidates are not “cutting an inch” until launch, but are focusing on daily life, as their training schedule is very busy. Gyula Cerenyi will conduct a test on emergency protocols next week, and Tibor Capó will continue his preparations with training on the rockets, capsule and spacesuits.
The Ax-4 mission will launch into space from Florida – according to plans – in the spring – on SpaceX's Falcon-9 launch vehicle, aboard the Dragon spacecraft module, and the four astronauts are expected to spend 14 days on board the International Space Station. .
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