01. Does the group get to spend time together prior to launch? (A K2S Question)

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Each national program does things a little differently in the way they train their astronauts. All space crews spend time training for their mission together for several years before they actually fly. In Russia, the cosmonauts also move their families close to one another and spend much more time together socially than American astronauts. Since the International Space Station has been in operation, part of the training program is for the international crew members to spend time working together to get familiar with how each other works. These training experiences can include going through wilderness experiences, learning how to fix things on the station or learning how to work on an experiment that will be in progress during their mission. All these opportunities help but the schedules are very busy and time is limited.

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Answer provided by Sheryl L. Bishop, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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