Why Cosmonauts Train in Water

What does it take to become a cosmonaut? This is a question that many people have been asking since the beginning of the space age in the 1960s.

Bostan Andrei
3 min readJul 18, 2022
Photo by Mike Kiev on Unsplash

Space organizations around the world are constantly aiming to send cosmonauts into space, and those who end up being selected to fly in space must meet certain standards in terms of physical and mental training and have a certain type of education and training.

Whether they come from the USA, Russia, China, Japan, or any other country that has a space program, cosmonauts must be very well prepared for the missions they are going to carry out

How many of you know what an astronaut’s training program is before he is sent to work in orbit close to Earth?

What is astronaut training?

Gravity on the Moon is extremely different from that on Earth and is one-sixth that of Earth. Therefore, astronauts need intense training, which can last for two years.

Thus, they will be able to work in space and perform various tasks such as repairs to the space station, taking geological samples from the surface of the Moon, and others.

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Bostan Andrei

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