Belarusian space flight candidates practice water landing

ZVEZDNY GORODOK, 22 November (BelTA) – Spacecraft crews at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center continue practicing their actions in case their reentry capsule lands on a body of water (aka splashdown), BelTA has learned.

The training sessions take place as part of the program to train EP-21 crews.

BelTA reported earlier that the main crew member Marina Vasilevskaya and her backup Anastasia Lenkova were chosen out of six Belarusian candidates after medical screening at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2022.

Taking part in the training sessions are the main crew members Marina Vasilevskaya and the Roscosmos cosmonaut, who was born in Belarus, Oleg Novitsky (the mission commander) as well as the backup crew members Anastasia Lenkova and the Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner (the mission commander).

The crews are supposed to practice their survival actions after landing on water surface, try on their gear, and go through an imitation of evacuation onto a hovering helicopter using evacuation gear.