According to the cosmonaut, the roles of those who perform work outside the ship and those who control the ERA robot manipulator from the inside are distributed in advance in the crewMOSCOW, March 23.
/tass/. Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina expects to make a spacewalk in the future. She announced this on Thursday at a post-flight online conference in TASS.
"No, I'm not offended that I didn't go into outer space. But I want to go into outer space. And I hope that this will happen sometime in my practice. But it happens in different ways. Not all astronauts and not immediately go into outer space. Let's take my crewmate Koichi Wakata - he made five flights, and only on his fifth flight he went into outer space," she said in response to a question from a TASS correspondent about whether she was offended because she failed to go into outer space during the last flight to The International Space Station (ISS).
According to Kikina, the roles of cosmonauts performing work outside the ship and cosmonauts who control the ERA robot manipulator from inside the ship are distributed in advance in the crew.
"It was interesting and easy to work with the ERA manipulator. Because we have worked out all the missions perfectly on earth with specialists who are responsible for training on the European robot manipulator," she added.
Crew members
There was a friendly atmosphere and mutual understanding among the crew of the 68th ISS expedition, she said Kikina.
"I had a completely comfortable communication with the entire crew - I mean not only Crew-5, but the entire expedition 68 at the station. I didn't experience any difficulties. <...> It was such a mini-group, a crew that worked in the same spirit, in the same rush with the expectation that everything would be done in a good mood, and therefore there were friendly relations, the atmosphere is wonderful," Kikina said.
According to her, each of the crew members was interested in maximum mutual understanding and orientation towards each other. "The willingness and desire to build communication between each other in the best way, support for each other and a sense of elbow - they have always been felt. A good sense of humor was constantly present in the crew: both at the station and in the ship," the cosmonaut shared.
Working on the radio
Working on the radio is a "purely operator activity", therefore it helps in space, she said Kikina.
"Definitely yes, because in my case, the work of a radio presenter is working on a console, you have a control panel, mixers, several microphones in front of you," the cosmonaut said in response to a question whether the experience of working on radio in space was useful.
According to the cosmonaut, she constantly had to work in real time with a variety of control systems, a microphone, and say something interesting on the air at a certain time. "The sense of time was instilled already there. Working with a variety of management bodies and interacting with people, your work partners. Many facets develop this kind of activity. This is pure operator activity," she added.
Flight into space
Kikina said that she would like to take her cat and her husband into space with her.
"A cat or better husband. But you can have a cat and a husband," Kikina said, answering the question of who she would take with her into space if there was such an opportunity.
According to the cosmonaut, on board the ISS she did not have enough mugs to drink hot sweet tea.
Odors on the ISS
The ISS has a specific smell, as do the ships that arrive on it, she said Kikina.
"There is a special smell. You can say more that incoming ships have different smells, but there is always such a shade as after welding - you know, like hot metal," Kikina shared.
According to her, depending on the cargo that the ship delivers, others are added to the familiar smell of the station - plastic or fruit, or both at once. "This is an interesting combination, unusual," the cosmonaut said.
Excavator control
Kikina said that she would like to learn how to operate an excavator and fly a glider in the future. She was asked what other technique she would like to learn to control.
"This is such a cool question, it's the first time in my life I've been asked it," Kikina said. "It may seem strange, but I want to learn how to work on an excavator, I want to learn how to move the earth with a bucket so that it would be beautiful, I have such plans," she said.
The questioner also suggested that the cosmonaut learn to fly a glider, to which Kikina reacted positively: "I have never flown, it will be interesting. Why not?"
The initial stage of Kikina's rehabilitation took place at the Space Center named after Lyndon Johnson NASA in Houston (Texas). Doctors of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center were also present at the site. After carrying out load tests and in-depth medical examination at the CPC, specialists will assess Kikina's condition, as well as determine the tactics of further recovery and the need to stay in the complex of pre-launch training and post-flight rehabilitation of astronauts and astronauts in Star City.
Kikina is the first Russian woman to fly as part of the crew of the American ship Crew Dragon. The cosmonaut returned to Earth on March 12, 2023. The duration of her flight was 157 days.