Almaz TKS/KSI Hydrolab Training

[David Lee Rickman]

Recently an American television program, "NOVA", broadcast footage which showed a training mockup of an Almaz Airlock attached to the docking end of a TKS in a dry hydrolab ...



Then we see a cosmonaut entering a hydrolab ...



The same training structure ...



And then a cosmonaut working a KSI into the aitlock ...



This appears to be the hydrolab at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center opened three years after the last Almaz mission. Can anyone identify the approximate date of this training or positively identify this Hydrolab?

Thank you,

David L. Rickman

[ааа]

НПО маш имеет свой гидробассейн. К сожалению, я там никогда не был, так что сравнить не могу.

[David Lee Rickman]

НПО маш имеет свой гидробассейн. К сожалению, я там никогда не был, так что сравнить не могу.

I did not know this. This is very useful information.

Большое спасибо!

David L. Rickman

[David Lee Rickman]

Based on the timing, I believe this footage is showing one of Chelomei's TKS cosmonaut crews training for a mission to the unmanned Almaz T. These crews trained in a TKS model in November of 1979. The hydro-tank opened in 1980, and these crews were still in various training exercises until at least late 1981, with limited VA training in 1982. OPS-4 had already been canceled as a manned station, but Chelomei still had hopes for his TKS cosmonauts
 
The docking end of the TKS was probably representing Kosmos-1443 built for training of Salyut-7 cosmonauts. This would explain why the TKS was similar to the Salyut hydro-tank trainer, but the Almaz airlock was of completely different construction. It (and the mock KSI capsule) could easily be slipped in for training - albeit draining the tank and moving the TKS portion.
 
Best Regards,
 
David L. Rickman

[ааа]

Рискну предположить, что гидробассейн на НПО маш создавался отнюдь не для тренировок космонавтов, а для испытаний систем ракет с подводным стартом.  

[David Lee Rickman]

Рискну предположить, что гидробассейн на НПО маш создавался отнюдь не для тренировок космонавтов, а для испытаний систем ракет с подводным стартом.  

IF and WHEN representatives of NPO Mashinostroyenia choose to respond to my inquiries, I will be sure to ask them. ( :wink:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: )

Best Regards,

David L. Rickman

[m-s Gelezniak]

Recently an American television program, "NOVA", broadcast footage which showed a training mockup of an Almaz Airlock attached to the docking end of a TKS in a dry hydrolab ...



Then we see a cosmonaut entering a hydrolab ...



The same training structure ...



And then a cosmonaut working a KSI into the aitlock ...



This appears to be the hydrolab at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center opened three years after the last Almaz mission. Can anyone identify the approximate date of this training or positively identify this Hydrolab?

Thank you,

David L. Rickman

Как то поднимался вопрос по шлюзовой камере Алмаза.
Так вот это работы в ней в гидробасейне.

[m-s Gelezniak]

ШК "прикручена" для тренировок к макету ХЧ ТКСа. Пусть это не смущает.