Formal+Training

Formal Training ** The first year has now been completed and the second year of Astronaut training is about to begin. There are a few major differences now, one of them being that each Astronaut has his own personal trainer. The training will only get more intense, and realistic making the astronauts lives even more hectic.

Our formal astronauts will now carry out Single System Training (SST), this style of training is carried out by each astronaut having an individual trainer to teach them out each part of a space shuttle would work, and how to operate and fix them as well. The Single System training is carried out in Shuttle Mission Simulators (SMSs). These simulating stations come with all the different stations, and components of a space shuttle, and all in regular size. In these simulators Astronauts will be trained in all different kinds of environments, as well as atmospheric Pressures, making the illusion like these astronauts are really training in space. Space mission can literally be simulated from Take-off, to touch-down, in these simulators. In parallel with raining in SMSs, Astronauts also Train in Weightless Environmental training Facilities (WETF), these are huge water tanks that contain, real sized models of a space Shuttle’s Obiters pay load bay. This is used to Simulate EVAs (Extra Vehicular Activity) which is Work done by an astronaut outside of earth, and the space craft. It is probably the most dangerous part of an Astronauts job, which is why it needs to be well rehearsed. These are not the only kinds of simulators used for astronaut training, many different simulators are used, but they all are used for the same thing, to train the astronaut in as real of an environment as we can possibly create. After around another year of training, the astronauts are now fully trained and ready for missions, but on all their time not in space they will be practicing, and re-learning the skills they did in there first 20 months of training.

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