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Program Highlights
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Clad in spacesuit, dive into the water as you train for your space walk "outside" a full scale model of the International Space Station
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Neutral buoyancy is the term used to describe when something has an equal tendency to float as it does sink. Objects that are configured to be neutrally buoyant seem to "hover" underwater. This is accomplished with a combination of weights and flotation devices. Large, neutrally buoyant items can be easily manipulated much like in orbit. This is the closest simulation of weightlessness on the surface of the Earth.
At Star City, the Neutral Buoyancy tank or usually called the "hydrolab" provides an excellent environment for testing hardware designed to operate in space while practicing techniques used for ISS assembly or servicing and repairing spacecraft. It is an excellent facility for cosmonauts and astronauts to practive Extra Vehicular Activity or EVA.
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For your training program, you will do a day long intensive training on the mechanics and operations of the specially made ORLAN-M spacesuit used by cosmonauts to train in the neutral buoyancy tank. You will be supervised by instructors and dive masters as you simulate operating tools and walking in space! Video and photography will be captured through the many port hole windows located on 3 levels of the tank as well as through professional underwater photography by the official and famous Star City photographer Marsel Gubaydullin.
