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Cosmonauts to get winter training in forest near Moscow
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MOSCOW, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - The winter training of cosmonauts to
drill survival in a wooded-and-marshy terrain begins in a Moscow Region
forest on Wednesday.
Irina Rogova, press secretary of the Cosmonauts' Training Center
(CTC), has told Itar-Tass, "CTC instructors are to undergo training on
Wednesday, and international crews consisting of Russian cosmonauts and
three NASA astronauts will begin to undergo training on January 20".
The ability to "survive" in the snows of the Moscow Region from
January 20 to 31 will be demonstrated by four crews -- three-member groups
consisting of cosmonauts and astronauts who prepare for a flight to the
International Space Station (ISS), and cosmonautics hopefuls of last
year's enrolment who aspire to join the Russian cosmonauts' corps.
The three-member-crew, headed by Gennady Padalka, one of the most
experienced Russian cosmonauts (who has to his credit three long-duration
space flights, including two aboard the ISS), will be the first to set
about survival training. His crewmembers will be NASA astronaut Joe Acaba,
who will take part in a space expedition to the ISS in 2012, and Alexei
Khomenchuk, a novice.
The second three-member crew will comprise two tyros Andrei Babkin and
Ivan Vagner under the command of experienced cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,
who has gone down in history as the first spaceman to register marriage
while staying aboard the ISS.
The third crew will consist only of cosmonauts who lack space flight
experience -- Oleg Novitsky, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov from the 2010 enrolment,
and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.
The fourth crew comprises Roman Romanenko, who worked aboard the ISS
for six months, tyro Denis Matveyev, and experienced NASA astronaut Thomas
Mashburn.
Each crew will stay in the forest for 48 hours, having with them only
a portable emergency ration of the cosmonauts. The training fully
simulates the extremal conditions of landing in a Soyuz spaceship descent
module (DM).
Upon egressing from the DM, and removing their Sokol (falcon)
spacesuits, the cosmonauts must pitch up signal bonfires, erect heat
insulating and windproof shelter from available means and the DM
parachute, cook meals, drill interaction with the search-and-rescue
service, and learn to give first aid to stricken fellow cosmonauts.
There is no danger of anyone's falling ill because of hypothermia or
humidity. The cosmonauts will undergo training in the forest outside
Moscow in heat-insulation suits which enable one to survive for 72 hours
in 60-degree frost (Celsius). Besides, the emergency ration includes a
six-liter water tank, a small store of foodstuffs, a first-aid kit, a
radio station, signaling means, fishing hooks, a minisaw and other
instruments, as well as a unique three-barrel pistol with a machete-like
buttstock.
The state of the crews' health is constantly monitored by means of a
distance medical control system which stood tests at the South Pole.
During the training the cosmonaut dons a belt with sensors by means of
which his state of health can be monitored via a satellite for 48 hours.
.Powerful explosion occurs at oil refinery in NW China Wed.
BEIJING, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - A powerful explosion occurred at an
oil processing enterprise of the China National Oil and Gas Corporation in
Fushung (Liaoning Province, North Eastern China) on Wednesday.
The Xinhua news agency reports that a fire is raging there now. No
details have been reported so far.
.Air passenger travel via Vladivostok grows by one-third in '10.
VLADIVOSTOK, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - Air passengers' travel via the
Vladivostok airport grew by almost one-third in 2010, for the first time
reaching an indicator of 1.2 million, an official at the public relations
department of the Vladivostok International Airport Company told Itar-Tass
on Wednesday.
Passenger traffic increased approximately in the same way on both
domestic and international airlines. Maxim Chetverikov, General Director
of the enterprise, said this is indicative "of the effective functioning
of the airport, its active and goal-oriented development".
"The airport certified more than ten new types of activities last year
with a view to attracting new air carriers and independently renders
services, such as medical and flight navigator support and full ground
servicing of airliners, etc.," Chetverikov pointed out.
The airport of Vladivostok currently undergoes full modernization in
the run-up to the 2012 summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) forum. Work is under way to reconstruct the airport buildings to
bring into being a modern passenger terminal complex out of domestic and
international air terminal and technological premises. The modernization
of two runways has been started. New parking areas for wide-bodied
airliners and taxiways are to be built as well. Following the
reconstruction the airport will be able to receive airliners of all types
and its handling capacity will grow up to 3.5 million passengers a year.
-0-pop
MOSCOW, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - The winter training of cosmonauts to
drill survival in a wooded-and-marshy terrain begins in a Moscow Region
forest on Wednesday.
Irina Rogova, press secretary of the Cosmonauts' Training Center
(CTC), has told Itar-Tass, "CTC instructors are to undergo training on
Wednesday, and international crews consisting of Russian cosmonauts and
three NASA astronauts will begin to undergo training on January 20".
The ability to "survive" in the snows of the Moscow Region from
January 20 to 31 will be demonstrated by four crews -- three-member groups
consisting of cosmonauts and astronauts who prepare for a flight to the
International Space Station (ISS), and cosmonautics hopefuls of last
year's enrolment who aspire to join the Russian cosmonauts' corps.
The three-member-crew, headed by Gennady Padalka, one of the most
experienced Russian cosmonauts (who has to his credit three long-duration
space flights, including two aboard the ISS), will be the first to set
about survival training. His crewmembers will be NASA astronaut Joe Acaba,
who will take part in a space expedition to the ISS in 2012, and Alexei
Khomenchuk, a novice.
The second three-member crew will comprise two tyros Andrei Babkin and
Ivan Vagner under the command of experienced cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,
who has gone down in history as the first spaceman to register marriage
while staying aboard the ISS.
The third crew will consist only of cosmonauts who lack space flight
experience -- Oleg Novitsky, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov from the 2010 enrolment,
and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.
The fourth crew comprises Roman Romanenko, who worked aboard the ISS
for six months, tyro Denis Matveyev, and experienced NASA astronaut Thomas
Mashburn.
Each crew will stay in the forest for 48 hours, having with them only
a portable emergency ration of the cosmonauts. The training fully
simulates the extremal conditions of landing in a Soyuz spaceship descent
module (DM).
Upon egressing from the DM, and removing their Sokol (falcon)
spacesuits, the cosmonauts must pitch up signal bonfires, erect heat
insulating and windproof shelter from available means and the DM
parachute, cook meals, drill interaction with the search-and-rescue
service, and learn to give first aid to stricken fellow cosmonauts.
There is no danger of anyone's falling ill because of hypothermia or
humidity. The cosmonauts will undergo training in the forest outside
Moscow in heat-insulation suits which enable one to survive for 72 hours
in 60-degree frost (Celsius). Besides, the emergency ration includes a
six-liter water tank, a small store of foodstuffs, a first-aid kit, a
radio station, signaling means, fishing hooks, a minisaw and other
instruments, as well as a unique three-barrel pistol with a machete-like
buttstock.
The state of the crews' health is constantly monitored by means of a
distance medical control system which stood tests at the South Pole.
During the training the cosmonaut dons a belt with sensors by means of
which his state of health can be monitored via a satellite for 48 hours.
.Powerful explosion occurs at oil refinery in NW China Wed.
BEIJING, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - A powerful explosion occurred at an
oil processing enterprise of the China National Oil and Gas Corporation in
Fushung (Liaoning Province, North Eastern China) on Wednesday.
The Xinhua news agency reports that a fire is raging there now. No
details have been reported so far.
.Air passenger travel via Vladivostok grows by one-third in '10.
VLADIVOSTOK, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - Air passengers' travel via the
Vladivostok airport grew by almost one-third in 2010, for the first time
reaching an indicator of 1.2 million, an official at the public relations
department of the Vladivostok International Airport Company told Itar-Tass
on Wednesday.
Passenger traffic increased approximately in the same way on both
domestic and international airlines. Maxim Chetverikov, General Director
of the enterprise, said this is indicative "of the effective functioning
of the airport, its active and goal-oriented development".
"The airport certified more than ten new types of activities last year
with a view to attracting new air carriers and independently renders
services, such as medical and flight navigator support and full ground
servicing of airliners, etc.," Chetverikov pointed out.
The airport of Vladivostok currently undergoes full modernization in
the run-up to the 2012 summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) forum. Work is under way to reconstruct the airport buildings to
bring into being a modern passenger terminal complex out of domestic and
international air terminal and technological premises. The modernization
of two runways has been started. New parking areas for wide-bodied
airliners and taxiways are to be built as well. Following the
reconstruction the airport will be able to receive airliners of all types
and its handling capacity will grow up to 3.5 million passengers a year.
-0-pop
