Rare visit to Star City cosmonaut training centre

Описание: (19 Feb 2011)
1. Wide exterior of cosmonaut training centre in Star City
2. Interior of news conference
3. Set-up of Sergei Krikalyov, head of cosmonaut training program
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Krikalyov, Head of Cosmonauts Training Program:
"The preparation of professionals for the flight (towards the Moon) will be far more serious, much longer, and it will seriously depend on the material basis (spaceship) the crew will fly on in this expedition, so when we understand the program and the hardware, we'll begin preparing the professionals (professional cosmonauts)."
5. Wide of pool where cosmonauts train in simulated space flight conditions in a state similar to weightlessness in real space flight
6. Various of support staff helping trainee into special costume for training underwater
7. Trainee being lowered into water
8. Instructor monitoring underwater drills through glass wall
9. Close of video monitor
10. Trainee underwater during training session
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Kharlashkin, instructor on the out-of-spaceship activities:
"Cosmonauts should be able to cope with specially designed, non-standard situations, so they learn this and know this."
12. Various of underwater training
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gennady Padalka, Russian cosmonaut:
"All operations performed in space are drilled here. Here we check the safety and reliability of operations to be performed, both for the crew and the station. We can't fly blind - we can't say: 'Let's walk out (of the spaceship or station) and see if something comes into someone's head'. Proper methodologies are worked through and only after that do we start to prepare training for the cosmonauts."
14. Various of underwater training
STORYLINE:
Journalists have been given a rare glimpse of cosmonauts training in Moscow Region's Star City.
Star City is where all Russian cosmonauts, or foreign astronauts involved in the Russian space programme, receive extensive pre-flight training - a process that is usually kept hidden from public view.
Inside the training centre, a replica of the International Space Station (ISS) submerged in a specially built pool is used by trainees to simulate the feeling of weightlessness in space.
According to Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, the training is thorough and intense for any would-be cosmonauts.
"Proper methodologies are worked through and only after that do we start to prepare training for the cosmonauts," he said.
Trainer Sergey Kharlashkin said that "cosmonauts should be able to cope with specially designed, non-standard situations, so they learn this and know this."
The 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight is on 12 April 2011.

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