Life of an Indian astronaut: Gaganyatri Angad Pratap tells about psychology, flight and survival training. mint

Group Captain Angad Pratap, Astronaut, Gaganyaan Mission, said that there are a lot of things that an astronaut has to go through in a short period of three to five hours every day. He mentioned a long list of activities that an astronaut has to do on the same day is not necessary.

“However, out of the eight working hours that you have, about three to three and a half hours are dedicated to physical training on a daily basis,” Group Captain Angad Pratap said. The remaining four and a half to five hours are dedicated to other activities, which could include yoga classes, core academic training and more, she said.

The Gaganyaan program of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will take humans to space using Indian spacecraft and rockets. It is expected to be launched by the end of next year. Group Captain Angad Pratap is one of the four astronauts selected for the Gaganyaan mission. The other three are P Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Shubhanshu Shukla.

Shukla and Nair are training in the US for a space mission aboard the International Space Station under a joint initiative between ISRO and NASA. Shukla has been selected for the flight expected next year, while Nair is the backup.

Meanwhile, astronaut-designate Group Captain Angad Pratap held his first online interaction on Friday. During the conversation he told what the average day of an Indian astronaut is like. He said an astronaut’s day includes:

1. Yoga Classes

2. Supervised Nutrition Full day including breakfast, lunch and dinner

3. Main Academic Training Before a person got his “space wings”. Training takes place either in India or abroad.

– Basic Space Theory/Space Science/Rocket Science

– Launch vehicle design and functioning

Spacecraft design and functioning

– Space station design and functioning

4. technical meetings With scientists, where they have to give qualitative requirements as a user – as input for scientists to incorporate into their design process of spacecraft systems.

– Spacecraft system review meetings.

– Spacecraft System Development Meetings

– Simulator development interaction

– Space Process Development Meetings

– Space Food Development Meetings

-Training Infrastructure Development Meetings

5. Simulator Training

– Full mission simulator

6. Aeromedical Training – Also includes some degree of simulation or space flight component. These include:

– disorientation simulator

7. Parallel Basic Education – Astronauts are also allowed to pursue their parallel basic education

– Human Machine Interface Development

8. physical training: An astronaut has to undergo physical training 5 days a week

– HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)

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

10. Survival Training

– Sea

11. parajumping This work is required to be performed mostly by astronauts who do not have a military background.

12. Detailed information session on the system trained abroad

13. Writing comprehensive reports on systems trained abroad

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

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

Such experimental tests:

– Integrated Air Drop Test

16. Space experiment training for experiments conducted in space

17. Asrtonogts are part of the Domain Expertise Advisory Panel (experimental test pilot)

18. Flight Training

– jet flying

19. future technology concepts

21. Potential specialist training abroad such as docking, neutral buoyancy, parabolic flight

– Academic assessment (by a competent panel, oral-voice pattern),

– Physical fitness assessment,

– Psychological assessment,

– Performance evaluation by superiors

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