Sentence examples for spacesuit training from inspiring English sources

Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".

The experience: After a few days of training alongside your five fellow crewmembers, you don your spacesuit and take your seat in the VSS Enterprise rocket plane.

Now, Christie's East is re-entering the market on May 9 with an auction of 350 items from astronauts and private collectors: maps sprinkled with lunar dust, emblems, Yuri Gagarin's report on his first space flight and five spacesuits, including the Gemini Extravehicular Activity model, left, used for training in 1966.

The new rules required that all Mir crew members should be trained and ready for spacewalks, but a Russian spacesuit could not be prepared for Lawrence in time for launch.

According to Morse, the portrait was taken the week before it was published, probably at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where the astronauts trained, and most likely in the hallway outside the astronauts' spacesuit dressing room.

Nothing says "giant prophylactic" like a spacesuit.

Russell Blink is squeezing into a spacesuit.

"I watched the spacesuit one last night," Ive told André.

Moon is in a spacesuit and helmet holding a balloon.

The next summer fashion statement will be the refrigerated spacesuit.

But there will not be an Apollo spacesuit".