Ok na razie jakieś 60% bo palce już mnie bolą od pisania
z czesci pytan musialem zrezygnowac, bo na "polityczne" za bardzo nie chciala odpowiadac, zreszta zobaczycie
Sc: Hello
V: Hi, my name is Michał Moroz, we have twitted before
Sc: Hello
V: Thank you very much for your time
Sc: Sure
V: We have selected ten questions for you. The questions were collected by the Kosmonauta.net website and the astronautyka.org spaceflight forum which is something like the polish nasaspaceflight community
Sc: Mhm
V: And I hop e you can answer some questions for us. Ok, are you ready?
Sc: Ready
V: Right, First. What will be your duties during your flight? How much of your stay or your experiments onboard the ISS are already planned?
Sc: Right. experiments for the ISS, they got a very long cycle, obviously the experiments we will do in 2014/2015 are already being prepared and they are in the pipeline, but what we call the baselining of the increment from the experimental point of view specifically does not start until launch minus 18 months or less. So at some point at spring the international partners will sit together and see what experiments concretely and specifically they want to baseline for expedition 34/35. So its a little bit early.
V: OK, so its the basic preparation how to use the hardware onboard the ISS for various ...
SC: Right I have started a specific... well there's a lot of training obviously at the experiments, but I have started some realization training specificlly for what we called payloads – for us its the experiments obviously – and they usually take place in racks, which are already on board of the space station, and some of them are devoted to life sciences, some of them to biology
V: Another questions is about the details of those tasks. When you're making some payload experiments – how does it look – do you need always specific training in Houston or Oberpfaffenhofen, or can actually anyone with a handbook manage the task. How does its look like?
Sc: Typically we get training because the scientists, the principal investigators and the program want to make sure we're really familiar with the experiments, and that we know exactly how to proceed. Of course there are some experiments, where the involvement of the crew is very limited, like changing a sample or turning on the hardware or starting the download of data, something like that, which is very basic. And most likely crew members would be able to do that also without training. There are a lot of other experiments which actually require extended training especially a lot of the experiments we do on human physiology, where we're actually working either on your body or somebody else's body. There are usually a pretty complex {?} setup as concerned, and you always want to do it safely, you don't want to hurt yourself or another crewmember. So those experiments tend to require extended training and I would train in those cases. There's no way of doing it without it.
V: Another question is more China-related. Do you see some kind of ESA cooperation with China on manned spaceflight and on a personal note, would you like to take part on a mission to a Chinese space station?
Sc: {smiech} Well, I'm a simple astronaut. So I'm not really aware of what's going on on the policy level, so I'm not the right person to ask. Obviously as an astronaut, I would be happy to go to space in any way any time, so that's the simple answer to your second question. But as your first question is concerned that is policy – that is really above my paycheck. {śmiech}
V: Ok, as your flight is in 2014/2015, how does the preparation to your mission look like now?
Sc: Right, what we call the training flow for an increment is about three years three and half years. I had started a little bit earlier, because in 2011 I was assigned as the ESA reserve astronaut, so I started to do some training, like EVA training, ISS systems training, Soyuz training, a little bit early, which is nice, because it means my training flow is not so condensed, its not so full, I have some free time in between, some free weeks once in a while, so that's nice. But for most people they have a normal flow, they start depending on what they have in terms of qualification, whether they are an experienced astronaut or not, they may have a shorter or longer flow, but on average a couple of years, where you spend part of your time in Houston part of your time in Russia, sometimes here at the European Astronaut Centre, some time in Canada and sometime in Japan, so these are all the international partners of the space station
V: must be very intensive for you
Sc: It's pretty intense especially you know trying to manage your life when you're basically travelling all your time. You end up having different homes, and having different stuff everywhere. You may have leave your very heavy clothes in Russia and they just stay there for two years {śmiech} and you're leaving summer clothes in Houston, and they just stay there {śmiech} and you have your friend in every place...
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