First ISS Crew Training
The first International Space Station crew, from left Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev and International Space Station Commander Bill Shepherd, practiced water survival skills in the Black Sea. The skills would be needed in the event a Soyuz spacecraft landed in the water rather than on land as is normal. The crew was scheduled to launch to the new station in January 1999 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 97-10685
Date: October 3, 1997
First ISS Crew Training
The first International Space Station crew, from left Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev and International Space Station Commander Bill Shepherd, practiced water survival skills in the Black Sea. The skills would be needed in the event a Soyuz spacecraft landed in the water rather than on land as is normal. The crew was scheduled to launch to the new station in January 1999 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 97-10685
Date: October 3, 1997