Nikolai, son of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, practiced docking the Soyuz MS spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The training took place during a visit to the Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK) named after him. Gagarin is in Star City near Moscow. It has been reported DEA News.
According to the agency, CPC staff showed him the simulator the astronauts use to prepare for flight. Nikolai’s practice was supervised by his father. Then they examined the hydrolaboratory, the ISS Russian segment simulator, the Soyuz MS spacecraft simulator and trained the Belarusian competitor for spaceflight.
Earlier it was learned that Lukashenka. met the work of the center and the system of selection and training of astronauts. Now the center selects applicants for spaceflight from Belarus, these are six girls.
Plans to send a Belarusian cosmonaut into space were previously confirmed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the president, Russia and Belarus are also cooperating in space exploration.