Everybody has admired astronauts, but would you think you have what it takes to be one? It is exciting to be in space, but the training they go through is really immense!
Even if you never considered applying as a candidate for being an astronaut, it is worth to learn a bit about their training.
Let’s play the below quiz and discover the challenges of astronauts’ training procedures.
You can find more info if you are interested at Nasa site and wikipedia
Thank you for reading, you can find more posts & quizzes by me here:
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The AsCans (Austronaut candidates) at Nasa, in order to become fully qualified austronauts, have to undergo training up to:
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one year
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two years
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In the Basic NASA Training, the astronauts take language courses, specifically in:
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Russian
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Chinese
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In Nasa, after the basic training, an advanced training follows, with use of real-sized models and Virtual Reality. This is the last section of training.
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False
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True
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The final phase in NASA is called the Intensive training, undergoing parallel with mission planning. This phase starts about:
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one year prior to launch
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three months prior to launch
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The European Training is carried out by the European Austronaut Centre (EAC). It is headquartered in:
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Cambridge, England
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Cologne, Germany
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For the selected astronauts, the basic training begins in the EAC headquarters and lasts:
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12 months
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16 months
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The last phase of training in EAC is called Increment-Specific Training, starting only after an astronaut is assigned to a flight. This phase lasts:
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12 months
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18 months
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For Russian Cosmonauts, the General Space Training (Basic level) lasts
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12 months
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24 months
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The Russian Astronauts training, in the last phase of their education are also learning
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Chinese
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English
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Apart from the Japanese and Chinese spaceflight programms, a country cooperating with NASA and waits for a formal ‘go ahead’, in order to probably proceed to a human spaceflight programm indivicually is:
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India
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Israel
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got 5 out of 10 right!
You got 6 out of 10 right!
Not so bad
Neat info on astronaut training programs.
Thank you Roberto, appreciate it!
10 out of 10. Keep it up!
Really? I would not get 10/10 if I replied now 😛
You would make a great astronaut Andrew!
Got 7 correct, a good quiz.
Thank you Carol, good day to you!!!
5/10. oops. -Interesting quiz to find out more about what astronauts have to do
Thank you, I am happy you enjoyed it!
I got 8/10. Really interesting quiz! You did some good research here 🙂
Thank you! Coming from you especially, it really means a lot!
The first 2018 trip to the moon has inspired me to start researching ! loool
Yes, I can tell you’re really hoping to become an astronaut 😀
Yeap, ready to go explore the infinite space….! 🙂