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From the earth to an ISS orbit - 400 kilometers.
530 seconds of flight to space and 4 rounds round
a planet to station.
Unique experimental flight.
In 6 hours prior to station
- mission is executed
"Soyuz" crew already on ISS
- ahead half a year of extraterrestrial life!
Countdown.
It is starting day
- day which solves everything.
Day in which occurs very much,
but so is possible to see a little.
Rocket firing with the spaceship "Soyuz"
- crew from three people - the next storm of space.
Crowns that became for years.
On real start it you won't see.
Only on trainings.
The same work, but without prestarting heat of emotions.
The second fitting of the ship -- on the eve of flight.
To look at laying in a household compartment, whether to check all on a place.
Already in space suits will have no time for it.
And in flight it is necessary to know
where any trifle lies.
Well, friends, here it is our ship.
The order -- is an order.
In short flight everything has to be near at hand.
The most important, the first-aid kit - astronauts put nearby.
Nobody knows how the organism
will get used to so fast change of events.
and can be the first-aid kit it is necessary to put on a sofa
This small hatch - transition between the lander and
a household compartment.
Astronauts there literally squeeze.
Here, in a household compartment all: the food, clothes,
tools and even sleeping bags though to have
a sleep in 6 hours hardly will turn out.
here three sleeping bags ...
Looked at all ship and BO and SA,
the ship is perfectly ready,
looked at all freights which at us are put
In preflight days it is necessary to be in time much.
To beginners - to plant a nominal tree
in the avenue of astronauts.
At whom it already grows -- obligatory to water.
To have hair cut.
And still - to get used to a dream headfirst
for adaptation to zero gravity.
Well and, of course, to leave autographs.
On the earth there is a studying
of the space Progress truck.
That in an orbit to meet and quickly to unload the transport ship.
To us with it to work, it is necessary to understand inside an interior, where
what governing bodies where what containers, to examine.
The truck will go to ISS in April
and delivers not only all necessary for life in an orbit, but also a new racetrack.
Here on "Progress"
our racetrack, very heavy,
very difficult car will depart
Each car unique is not Mercedes, it is much more difficult.
This time much preparatory work
it was conducted at night.
To it there is an explanation.
The active site of flight of the ship
and joining fell on a night-time,
and astronauts on the earth should have got used to such mode.
Here one of days of astronauts.
The schedule will be to the taste
to many people with physiology of an owl.
Lifting at 17.00.
By the way, according
to this schedule there
lives all environment of astronauts:
translators, instructors
- this time they practically
didn't see the Sun.
And anybody wasn't surprised
any more by remarks in the evening
- with a wish of Kind morning.
Didn't close eyes and native astronauts.
However, spouse Alexander Misurkin
by old Soviet tradition
said goodbye to the husband at a native threshold,
and here Pavel Vinogradov's wife Irina Valentinovna
and daughter Katya -
in all flights saw off the father on Baikonur.
I see off consciously already the second time
as the first flight the father made the first flight when I was 4 years old
the second flight I I remember and here at last the third flight.
Disturbingly, we worry, actually,
each time are new unpredictable,
this work very interesting something is constant new
it is impossible to compare the third time,
the fourth, the fifth.
in total in a new way always.
I saw off crew into an orbit
and the first Deputy Prime Minister of the government of Russia Igor Shuvalov.
Work -- is work. However, to see preparation of crew and real start of the ship in space
-- is worth a lot.
On me made impression as prepare
the Proton complex.
The story about this equipment
and what satellites is put by it to orbit.
I hope that I will sometime see
as "Proton" start. Well, and it is our pride
-- a piloted complex "Souyz".
Too, certainly makes impression.
It is the huge project
and huge property
of that country which already isn't present.
It is our joint project,
Russia and Kazakhstan.
Russia - the space power.
Kazakhstan with Russia wants to develop
space programs.
I consider that these programs on Baikonur have a big future.
Once Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova said to me that it is necessary
to visit start and to see alive as the piloted complex is started.
These are unforgettable feelings.
Pavel Vinogradov has already a tradition
- to celebrate the birthday,
on August 31, in space. All three flights fell on summer months
so a family not to get used
- by an unusual holiday on two houses:
orbital and terrestrial.
On ISS it will be necessary to make fifty experiments.
In general, space flight
is one big experiment
which is made by people over people.
The whole series of experiments
which studies eye pressure in space flight.
it the task and understanding of these processes
which go in an organism
are very difficult are important for medicine.
Strong impact on an optic nerve is made
by zero gravity.
To observe the earth from a station window too it is unsafe,
especially at strong sunlight.
The composition of blood changes also.
Control tests are located
in the refrigerator
and results on the earth go.
In duplicating crew the astronaut with
a known space surname. Sergey Ryazansky
- the grandson of the chief designer
of communication systems
of the first artificial satellites of Earth - Mikhail Ryazanskogo.
Itself Ryazan the-junior - the biologist by training admits
- was torn in space always.
I passed through experiment
"Mars-500".
Today - the dream becomes reality.
I since the childhood dreamed to be the biologist
and when it turned
out that the biology and space can be compatible it it is very healthy.
It is a pity that the grandfather left long ago
this life and not in a course that I went on its track.
Doublers will start acting this fall. Together with Oleg Kotov and Michael Hopkins Sergey Ryazansky will replace
in an orbit Pavel Vinogradov's crew.
Its flight will be a nice gift to native
Institute of medicobiological problems which
in October
celebrates semicentennial anniversary.