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In the third episode of our \u2018Fit for space\u2019 training series, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer explains how astronauts learn to survive on their own if ever a spacecraft lands away from its intended landing site.<\/p>\n
Generally a spacecraft lands within a few kilometers of its landing site, but sometimes they return in a so-called \u2018ballistic mode\u2019 in a steeper entrance trajectory putting the astronauts under increased gravity loads, and landing with less precision \u2013 sometimes 400 km away from the intended landing area.<\/p>\n
From winter survival to water survival, astronauts are prepared for anything, from building fires and shelters, to surviving cold waters and righting capsized life rafts.<\/p>\n
The video includes footage from the Soyuz winter survival training, water survival training fire emergency training as well as Chinese sea survival training.<\/p>\n