The life of the Indian astronaut: Gaganyaatri Angad Pratap talks about psychological, flight and survival training

Gaganyaan Mission astronaut group captain Angad Pratap said there are a lot of things that an astronaut has to go through in a short span of three to five hours a day. He mentioned a long list of activities that an astronaut must perform, not necessarily on the same day.

“However, out of the eight hours of work we have, approximately three to three and a half hours are dedicated to physical training daily,” said group captain Angad Pratap. He added that the other four and a half to five hours are dedicated to other activities, which could include yoga classes, basic academic training and more.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Program errors will take humans into space using Indian ships and rockets. It is expected to launch late next year. Group captain Angad Pratap is one of the four astronauts selected for the Successful Mission. Other three are P Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Shubhanshu Shukla.

Shukla and Nair are undergoing training in the US for a space mission aboard the International Space Station as part of a joint initiative between ISRO and NASA. Shukla has been chosen for the flight. It is expected that next year, while Nair will be the substitute.

Meanwhile, the designated astronaut Group Captain Angad Pratap held its first online talk on Friday. During the talk he explained what a normal day for an indian astronaut seems. He said an astronaut’s day includes:

1. Yoga classes

2. Supervised nutrition throughout the day that includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.

3. Basic Academic Training before a person gets their “space wings.” Training is carried out in India or abroad.

– Basic theory of space/Astronautics/Rocket science

– Design and operation of the launch vehicle.

Spacecraft design and operation

– Design and operation of the space station

4. Technical Meetings with scientists, where they must present qualitative requirements as a user, as inputs for scientists to incorporate into their spacecraft system design process.

– Spacecraft system review meetings.

– Spacecraft systems development meetings.

– Simulator development interactions

– Space procedures development meetings.

– Space food development meetings.

-Training Meetings for Infrastructure Development

5. Simulator training

– Complete mission simulator

6. Aeromedical training – also encompasses to some extent the simulation or space flight component. Includes:

– Disorientation simulator

7. Parallel basic education – Astronauts can also continue their basic education in parallel.

– Human-machine interface development

8. Physical training: Astronauts must perform physical training 5 days a week.

– HIIT (high intensity interval training)

9. Psychological Training: As a job profile, being an astronaut is highly stressful

10. Survival training

– Sea

11. parachute jump must be performed, primarily by astronauts who do not have a military background

12. Extensive briefings on foreign-formed systems

13. Extensive writing of reports on systems formed abroad.

14. Technical literature and reports on various aspects of human space flight.

15. Visits/tours to various ISRO facilities: Foreign visits for space suit training, parabolic flight training

Such experimental tests:

– Integrated air drop test

16. Training in space experimentation for experiments to be carried out in space.

17. Asrtonoghts are part of the Domain Experience Advisory Panels (Experimental Test Pilots)

18. Flight training

– Jet flight

19. Future technology concepts

21. Possible specialized training such as docking, neutral buoyancy, parabolic flights abroad.

– Academic evaluations (by a competent panel, viva-voce pattern),

– Physical fitness evaluations,

– Psychological evaluations,

– Performance evaluations by superiors

23. Short courses/tech capsules like some special equipment from any external organization manufacturing technology for Gaganyaan, life support training, human centric products.