ZVEZDNY GORODOK (Moscow region). Sept 14 (Interfax) - The final stage of examination training has begun at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for the International Space Station's expedition 57/58.
The Soyuz MS-10 spaceship, which will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 11, will be manned by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague. They have received their examination cards, but the assignment will be revealed after the crewmembers take their seats in the training ship.
Examination assignments model various abnormal situations the crew may encounter during the flight. The whole idea of the exam will be compromised if the assignment is known in advance.
The crew's backups are Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Canadian astronaut David Saint Jacques.
The press service of the Cosmonaut Training Center said the backups passed their exam together with the previous expedition in May 2018.
The examination training, which lasts for two days, started on Thursday.
On the first day, the crew codenamed Burlaki (haulers) repaired a VHF receiver, detected and fixed a failure in the oxygen supply system, avoided a collision with space debris, and dealt with a full tank of the waste management system.
Depressurization of the ISS's Russian segment was another assignment for the next crew. The exam lasted for about nine hours.
The preflight exams started in late August, 45 days before the takeoff. Crew commander Ovchinin passed an exam in remote piloting of the Progress MS resupply ship approaching the station. In addition, the crew passed an exam in manual docking and re-docking of the Soyuz MS ship, and a manually controlled descent. It also had a standard-flight-day practice, which tested their knowledge of the Russian segment of the ISS.