hey everyone and Happy New Year this is
it it's finally 2015 there's less than
that
eight months to go before my first
spaceflight but there's still a lot of
training to come in the following months
i'm back in Star City and Russia for
more Soyuz training and sarah brightman
is also here Sarah of course is the
world-renowned soprano singer and will
be the third crewmates aboard our Soyuz
and she'll also be spending ten days
aboard the International Space Station
I don't have any training with Sarah yet
so you probably won't get to meet her
until later video
most of my training or at least a lot of
it in the following months is focused on
Soyuz simply because the launch and
landing faces are some of the most
critical phases of a spaceflight most of
that training i'll be doing together
with two russian cosmonauts study volkov
and gennady padalka i'll be launching
with Sergei and then landing with
padalka and most of the training takes
place in simulators where we learn how
to operate and how to control so use and
also how to react quickly and properly
to any off nominal situation and of
course one of the elements that we spend
a lot of time learning about of is the
so-called space suit which will keep us
alive in case of any emergencies such as
fire and the capsule or a rapid
depressurization and today I have a
review class on the so-called space suit
just to remind myself of all the
elements how to operate it properly and
how and also to review some of the
emergency situations and so let's go
have a look
and here i am getting ready to put on
the space suit wearing nothing but my
wonderful white space underwear
I think it's made from very very
high-tech material which they called
cotton I'm not the most flexible person
in the world so putting on the spacesuit
can be a bit challenging and of course
you want to make sure you don't scrape
the skin off the tip of your nose and
you pop your head through the neck ring
next comes the headset without the
headset you can't speak on
the radio so it's quite an important
part of the suit but the most important
part is this plastic bladder which is
what actually provides the airtight seal
you want to make sure you fold that out
real nice and need to get a good seal
and then tied off with a good strong not
and just to make sure it stays airtight
you just want to kind of backed out a
way to protect it
the main purpose of the soup of course
is to provide mechanical protection for
the bladder and to prevent it from
expanding or blowing up like a balloon
last but not least from the gloves and
I'm ready for a run in the Soyuz
training simulator
history but the only person around it
doesn't have TV coverage of the food and
that man got the black up now you're
gonna be getting a TV picture now
they'll yes we are getting a TV picture
now
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