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EVA Training Mockup of Pirs
This is one of the EVA (spacewalk) training modules in the Russian Hydrolab. It is a mockup of the Russian docking module called 'Pirs' or CO1, used as an airlock as well as a docking port for the ISS. In this tank, divers help the cosmonauts to train for their spacewalks. Underwater training simulates some aspects of the weightlessness they encounter during the EVA. A single spacewalk can last for seven hours without a break, so the cosmonauts have to be both fit and strong.
EVA Training Mockup of Pirs
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Strapped In, Ready to Roll
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Next-generation Soyuz TMA Cockpit
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EVA Training Mockup of Pirs
EVA Training Mockup of Pirs
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Donning a Space Suit in Weightlessness
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Cosmonaut in a Spin
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Older Soyuz Simulator
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