For the first time in 20 years, the Russian woman cosmonaut will go to the International Space Station (ISS). Elena Serova passed all the training, passed the exams and ready for space travel.
The main and backup crews for the next mission to the ISS take exams at the Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City near Moscow . Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev and Elena Serova, American astronaut Barry Wilmore started the exams on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. Before you start training, they pulled the examination tickets indicating abnormal situations that may occur in the course of manned flight, reports “Interfax” referring to a source in the Cosmonaut Training Center.
Start of the next mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for 26 September. Serov will become the fourth Russian woman in space . The first female astronaut in the world was Valentina Tereshkova (June 1963). Svetlana Savitskaya made a flight in July 1984. She became the first woman to walk in space. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in space flew only one Russian – Elena Kondakova. In 1994-1995, she spent at the station “Mir” for five months.
Note that Serov – not only Russian woman cosmonaut, who claims to be a trip into space. As the chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center Yuri Lonchakov, Anna Kikina can go to space flight in a few years . Besides Serova and Kikina, the Russian detachment of women astronauts are no more.
“Anna Kikina passed training. Now the guys from her set, which was released, was training for parachute training, and then they went on to survive in the desert Baikonur. A very high level of training of Anna evaluate all instructors , who worked with her, so I think it will be a worthy astronaut “- quoted by RIA Novosti Lonchakova.
In response to a question when it will be able to go to space flight, he said that it will not be sooner than three or four years. “Now it must be set to be trained in groups, then – the appointment of the crew. I think, in about three or four at best. Let’s hope. All data is Anna,” – said Lonchakov.
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