Description
Summary:
Offered by Integrated Spaceflight Services exclusively in partnership with Survival Systems USA, ‘Spacecraft Egress, Sea Survival, and Rescue Operations’ is the first professional education course on the landing and post-landing phase of manned spacecraft missions. This background is essential when considering spacesuit design criteria.
Curriculum:
Each program provides an immersive educational experience covering the following topics:
Spaceflight-Specific Topics of Study
- Planning for Nominal and Contingency Landings
- Nominal Rescue Operations
- Contingency Rescue Operations for Land Landing Spacecraft
- International Program-Specific Agreements
- Global SAR Response Resources supporting Contingency Landings
- Contingency Rescue Operations for Water Landing Spacecraft
- Pad Egress Failure Environments, Pad Egress Design and Operations
- Early De-orbit scenarios
- Post-Landing Contingencies
- Egress Systems
- Egress Procedures and Operations
- Assessing Probabilities and Effects of Injuries and Deconditioning
- Assessing the Effects of Deconditioning on Egress Operations
- Incapacitation through Entrapment
- Egress and Post-Landing Operations in the Age of Commercial Manned Spaceflight
- Emergency Post-Landing Survival Kits, Medical Resources
Fundamental Egress and Post-Landing Survivability Skills
- Safety and survival equipment utilization and deployment
- Coping with physiological and psychological stress
- Introduction of rescue devices and simulated rescues
- Preparation for emergency landing situations in a spacecraft
- Evacuation through an emergency exit from a spacecraft
- Physics and physiology for use of compressed air;
- Preflight inspection, egress considerations, and clearing procedures using an EBD
- Conducting an emergency egress on breath hold utilizing the Shallow Water Egress Trainer
- Conducting an emergency egress with an EBD utilizing the Shallow Water Egress Trainer
- Evacuation and escape training utilizing the Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS™) with and without utilizing an EBD
Sea Survival Skills
- Safety and survival equipment utilization and deployment
- Introduction to hypothermia mitigation and sea survival
- Personal rescue techniques and use of life rafts and signaling devices
- Characteristics of personal flotation devices and aviation jackets
- Life raft deployment/entry and simulated emergency scenarios
- Introduction to individual and group sea surface formations
- Introduction to search and rescue resources and equipment