ATLAS Aerospace

The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. You will acquire actual skills on a space vehicle control by means of unique hardware and facilities and learn a lot about the space vehicle's docking process. You also will be given fundamentals of space navigation.

More than two dozens of integrated and specialized simulators and trainers are used presently at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Center for training cosmonauts within the framework of "Soyuz-TM" utilization program and International Space Station.

The main simulators, trainers and stends are:

- TDK-7ST N1 and N2 integrated simulators used for training cosmonauts on "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle, its systems and hardware control in the course of the space mission program implementation in standard, off-nominal and emergency situations at all stages of the flight, as well as for mastering skills, how to follow and to handle the flight procedures;

- "Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station;

- "Teleoperator" specialized simulator for mastering the approach remote-control skills, which main task is to train crews on manual control of the "Progress" cargo vehicle while doing approach, berthing and fly-around, docking to and undocking from the orbital station in the remote controlling mode in case of emergency and off-nominal situations;

- Specialized simulator for training cosmonauts on the"Soyuz-TM" transport vehicle approach and docking to the long-term orbital station and for maintaining the crew skills on manual control of the transport space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach, rendezvous, fly-around, docking to/ undocking from the space complex, foreseen by the program of the flight;

- "Vykhod" specialized trainer for training cosmonauts on managing the EVA-suit systems, as well as on controlling its independent and on-board systems of life-support and air -locking in standard operational use and in off-nominal situations;

- A complex of training facilities of the the ISS Russian segment modules - The RS ISS simulators and trainers operate under conditions of a collective usage of computation devices, training monitoring and control facilities, independent means of exterior visual situation imitation both autonomously and jointly, forming a combined engineering complex. The remaining training facilities operate independently and have an information link (possibility of link) with each other, as well with the informational systems of the Center outside of a real time.

- Virtual-reality-based stand for ISS crew training - In the course of their training and depending on the training stage cosmonauts and astronauts study the on-board systems' location and their design principles, ISS RS structure and configuration, acquire skills of onboard systems control with the help of consoles and control panels in regular and off-nominal modes.

- Astro-navigational functional-simulating stand - AFSS enables not only to generate and to project a stellar sky, but also to imitate a flight dynamics for different manned space vehicles, providing a movement of constellations in a field of view of windows with actual angular velocities. It is very effective means in training crews on attitude control and navigating with the help of stars position and by means of optical-and-visual instruments under conditions, which are close to the actual space flight.

- All the simulators and trainers, mentioned above are unique. You will never find something like that anywhere else, except at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. All the cosmonauts, which have flown on board the "Soyuz" space vehicles - both Russian and foreign ones, including the first space tourist Dennis Tito - have passed the full training course just in these very simulators.