How does an astronaut return to
Earth from the
International Space Station? What does it feel like to re-enter the atmosphere? How does the
Soyuz capsule function?
Watch and find out. This video is based on an actual lesson delivered to the
ESA astronaut class of 2009 (also known as the #Shenanigans09) during their ESA
Basic Training. It features interviews with astronauts who have flown on the Soyuz and dramatic footage of actual landings.
Produced by the ESA
Human Spaceflight and Operations (
HSO)
Astronaut Training Division,
Cologne, Germany, in collaboration with the HSO
Strategic Planning and Outreach
Office,
Noordwijk,
The Netherlands, with special support from
Roskosmos.
Narration
Voice:
Bernard Oattes
Technical
Experts: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy
Churkin (HSO-UT)
Content Design: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin, Raffaele
Castellano,
Matthew Day (HSO-UT)
Animation &
Video Editing: Raffaele Castellano (HSO-UT), HSO-K
Project Coordination: Matthew Day, Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin (HSO-UT)
Special thanks to:
Martin Schweiger (
Orbiter software:
http://orbit/medphys.ucl.ac.uk/)
Nikita Vtyurin,
Andrew Thielmann (Orbiter Soyuz model)
Lionel Ferra (HSO-UT)
Oleg Polovnikov (HSO-UT)
Frank De Winne (HSO-A)
Paolo Nespoli (HSO-A)
Antonio Rodenas
Bosque (HSO-UT)
NASA
ROSCOSMOS
S.P. Korolev Rocket and
Space Corporation Energia
Aerospace
Search and Rescue Service of the
Russian Federation
Parachute footage:
Cambridge University Spaceflight
Surfer footage: copyright
Red Bull Media House
Footage from inside Soyuz capsule courtesy of
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European Space Agency, the
Government of Japan, the
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Also watch:
Journey to the ISS Part 1: The launch sequence explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvgpKt5uCA
Watch Part 2: Soyuz rendezvous and docking explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2_NeFbFcSw
Captions available in
English,
French,
German,
Italian,
Russian,
Romanian (with thanks to
Alexa Mirel) and
Spanish.
Click on the CC button to switch between languages.
- published: 11 Nov 2013
- views: 1819396