Passed!
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti passed her final ATV training exam on 6 February.
Today Sasha and I passed our ATV rendezvous exam and were officially certified to perform the monitoring of the ATV docking.
As you probably know, the Automated Transfer Vehicle is totally autonomous in its approach and docking to the International Space Station. In fact, there is no way to take manual control of ATV and bring it in for docking, as our Russian crewmates can do with the Progress cargo ship.
Read more on Samantha’s G+ page.
Automated Transfer Vehicle page
ATV blog archive
NASA Orion page
NASA Artemis
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