View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/life-of-an-astronaut-jerry-carr Astronaut Jerry Carr knows space. As commander of Skylab, he spent over 2000 hours in space, orbiting the Earth...
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Reviewer: Bedirhan CinarNormally astronaut training takes about one full year,and it includes such subjects asastronomy,astrophysics,flight physiology,orbital trajectories,or orbital management.Another part of the astronaut basic training is survival training.In the days of Gemini,you never knew for sure where a spacecraft might landif there was an emergency, deorbit.So, we had to take desert training,water training,and jungle survival training.So, we had to learn how to cook and eat snakeand all other, such other good things as that,and how to make water in a desert.After that year and a half of astronaut basic training,our names were all put on a listand that list was quite a bit longer at that timethen there were seats available.And so, we ...
