Have you ever wondered how an astronaut is? Well, it requires a lot of ground work, literally.
Before launching a handful of skilled humans in space, they should undergo strict training, from the microcity to survival in the winter.
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John McFall, a desired astronaut, is one of the four exercises to spend a period at the International Space Station (ISS) at the European Space Agency base (ESA) in Cologne, Germany this year.
Although there is no guarantee, McFall, or any of the face, will never see the Karman line, it will be based in Cologne for at least a year to attend the official school of astronauts.
Unlike Fadj, McFall has already been in Cologne since June 2023 to participate in the ESA fly! feasibility.
He is the first astronaut to suffer from a physical disability.
The surgeon of the former disabled and orthopedic surgery was chosen in 2022 to work in a pioneering study to see if he can go to space safely.
McFall is amputation, and lost the bottom of his right leg in a motorcycle accident when he was 19 years old.
The study found “No models” that would prevent an astronaut with a disability like McFall from joining long space tasks, according to ESA.
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A day in life
McFall is now five weeks in its official training training.
“I live in Bonn, which is about 20 to 25 km south of Cologne. I live here with my wife and three children.”
It is about 22 km away from the sprawling ESA base – a journey that describes it as a “very nice” cycle, although it will move sometimes.
Upon arrival, he will leave his bike or car and head to the separation.
“A lot of training at this stage is theoretical things,” says McFal.
“So, the things you need to know if you want to fly, but also the things you need to know to communicate with people about the benefits of Faceflight.”
Although he also has lessons in psychology.
“We have done a lot about how humans interact with each other, and what we call human behavior and performance,” he added.
“It is interesting to think of who you are as a character, and how your personality interacts with the characters of others.”
Science.
He says: “At the present time, we explore the fields of radiation physics, radiation biology, as well as the effects of the smaller gravitational environment on biology as a whole, on humans,” he says. “But how small gravity affects the growth of plants.”
Then there is PE – which not only gets the body for space, but will also help train future astronauts on space.
“We are always doing a lot of exercises as a team,” says McFall, which includes a gym and swimming.
“We were also doing some diving, because diving is an introduction to learn the skills needed to do space.
“It is a kind of mobility stones to be able to do so.”
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Training to survive in the winter
Outside the semester, astronauts The survival training in the winter in the Spanish mountains covered with snow should be completed.
Although the McFall was completed this year before its chapter.
As part of [the feasibility] McFal, who joined the 2022 category that started training in April 2023.
McFall says the tasks are working hard, says McFall, which is designed not only to enhance teamwork during pressure but to survive in the rogue landing scenario in an enemy environment.
“One of the reasons for our training in the winter is that if your spacecraft lands in an unpredictable place, and this has happened in a very cold and winter place, you must be able to know how to stay there so that you can Be saved, “continues.
“We have done a lot of long -distance walking in the snow. We learned about building shelter and different techniques to build shelters to sleep in snow.
“We have learned about emergency procedures if you fall into water, save people from water, protect from low body temperature, and learn to build fires in snow, and if you are in a snow forest, what kind of materials you can use to build fire?
But the most difficult McFall mission, as he says, along with steel versus -5 ° C in wet clothes, was transporting a victim in ice shoes.
“We had a simulation as we had to transfer a victim … but you are fighting 50 cm from snow. It is embarrassing, it is clumsy, it's exhausting,” added McFAL.
“You have to make a temporary stretch of trees, branches and some basic materials that you have.
“The terrain is also difficult, we had very slope slopes to climb while carrying someone, which is a dead weight.
“When you have a victim, you are not actually aware of the weight of people. So, it was very difficult, but it is permissible.”
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a fly! Ticket
McFall has subjected a lot of tests as part of the fly! He studies.
“We had to take a test to simulate changes in fluid movement in your body,” explains McFall.
“Because when you go to space, the liquid moves more to your box, in your head, and less to your legs.
“We wanted to try and understand [how this would] It affects the suitability of my legs, and the artificial fits in space. “
The legs of the astronauts shrink between five and 10 percent within hours of being in space – a change that continues throughout the task.
The artificial limbs should be worn when exercising – any astronauts commit two hours a day on ISS.
To simulate the effects of minor gravity, McFall first underwent testing the tilt table, here he was slowly swinging to imitate the effects of space.
Then he rotated on the bicycle machine while placing it flat, to assess how fluids turned during exercise – all of this did not affect the synthetic comfort.
Then there was a hardware test, to test different running blades on the changing glamor.
“Space pioneers are envoys from Earth, right? They are ambassadors of humanity.”
“I think this degree, they should also be represented by humanity.
“This is not in the end, but the beginning of this journey to try to understand astronauts with different physical abilities.”
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