How are the astronauts trained for their space flights?
Astronauts undergo a very special training before they go into space. To cope with the gravitational forces which are produced at the time of acceleration or declaration, they are trained in a glint machine called ‘centrifuge’ which whirls them around in a cabin at the end of a long arm with gravitational forces as high as 16G (G is a unit of measuring gravitational measuring gravitational force). Another machine spins them in all direction, so that they get used to floating they might experience in a spacecraft.
The astronauts are put inside a dummy space capsule, which is identical in every respect to a real space capsule. It is at tached to a flight simulator which creates the conditions of a real flight. The astronauts are also made to experience weightlessness by putting them in a high speed plane which flies up and over in a steep arc.
Their training prepares them for all the extreme conditions they might encounter in space flight.
