Astronauts typically trained in various aircraft, including the T-38 Talon, a high-performance jet trainer used by NASA for flight training and to maintain their flying proficiency. They also used the KC-135 Stratotanker for practicing weightlessness during parabolic flight maneuvers. Additionally, some astronauts trained in simulators and other aircraft, depending on their specific mission requirements.
There are a couple of meanings to the word astronauts. The first definition is a person who is trained to fly beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the second is someone is in training for space flight.
Astronauts currently work in six month shifts on the international space station. A single astronaut might fly only once in his career. Others, however, have flown as many as five or six times! (Astronaut training is expensive.)
Astronauts or trained pilots typically fly spaceships. They undergo extensive training to operate the spacecraft and navigate through space.
An aircraft is designed to fly in 'air' there is no 'air' in space.
NASA did not build the aircraft for the Apollo missions. Instead, NASA used rockets and spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The Apollo 16 mission used a Saturn V rocket to launch the spacecraft carrying the astronauts.
Only very special pilots who have gone through a lot of training will get to fly this aircraft.
Astronauts are people who fly in space
The simple answer is to learn to fly, to learn airmanship skills. If you want to learn how to fly an aircraft then you will want to take some flight training courses.
There are a couple of meanings to the word astronauts. The first definition is a person who is trained to fly beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the second is someone is in training for space flight.
Astronauts currently work in six month shifts on the international space station. A single astronaut might fly only once in his career. Others, however, have flown as many as five or six times! (Astronaut training is expensive.)
The training that is required to fly a Cessna 172 Skyhawk is to be a Certified Flight Instructor, Air Transport Pilot, and to be experienced in Complex Aircraft Endorsement.
The training for the American astronauts is done at N.a.S..A space centers.
Yes, astronauts can fly out here and there as they live in zero gravity in space.
Astronauts or trained pilots typically fly spaceships. They undergo extensive training to operate the spacecraft and navigate through space.
I found this on wikipedia after googling "astronaut" "Once selected, NASA astronauts go through 20 months of training in a variety of areas, including training for extra-vehicular activity in a facility such as NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.[1][55] Astronauts-in-training may also experience short periods of weightlessness in aircraft called the "vomit comet", the nickname given to a pair of modified KC-135s (retired in 2000 and 2004 respectively, and replaced in 2005 with a C-9) which perform parabolic flights.[54] Astronauts are also required to accumulate a number of flight hours in high-performance jet aircraft. This is mostly done in T-38 jet aircraft out of Ellington Field, due to its proximity to the Johnson Space Center. Ellington Field is also where the Shuttle Training Aircraft is maintained and developed, although most flights of the aircraft are done out of Edwards Air Force Base."
The actual price of the training courses would vary dramatically, based on the type of aircraft you are interested in learning to fly, and length of courses.
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