MOSCOW (Energia PR) — Under the project of the New-Generation Advanced Manned Transportation Spacecraft, tests have been run at S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation, Energia to try out crew activities during ingress into and emergency escape from command compartment of the reentry vehicle.

The tests were run using the reentry vehicle layout mockup and included the operations of settling the crew in the command compartment, as well as an emergency escape from the command compartment on the launch pad, and an unassisted egress from the reentry vehicle after its landing on solid ground outside its designated landing area.

Taking part in crew operations trials were specialists and cosmonauts from the flight tests department of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia and the research institute of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

The trials have validated the layout solutions implemented in the New-Generation Advanced Manned Transportation Spacecraft project in terms of providing crew comfort and safety, as well as resulted in proposals on the design and layout of the command compartment and on the equipment list, implementation of which will make it possible to additionally improve the crew living conditions during pre-launch preparations, during launch and in flight.

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