MOSCOW, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - Military Air Forces and Air Defense Forces of Russia’s Eastern Military District together with the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, and the Pacific Fleet rescue service are holding Russia’s first joint exercises to rescue cosmonauts at sea, fleet spokesman Captain First Rank Roman Martov said Friday.
“For the first time in recent history, an exercise to find and evacuate cosmonauts at sea after reentry will be held at the Pacific Fleet’s main base on August 2-8,” Martov told journalists.
A number of exercises aimed at working through the actions of the crew of a manned Soyuz-TMA transport spacecraft during parachute descent and landing are scheduled for August, 5.
The at sea part of the training includes the “practical work-through of all complex issues, with the use of maritime aviation, ships and rescue forces of the Pacific Fleet rescue service,” and is to take place in Ussuri Bay on August, 7.
