From September 6 through September 8, 2004 S.P. Korolev RSC Energia hosted
routine training sessions for Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao and their
backup cosmonauts Valeriy Takarev and Willliam McArthur under the crew
training program for the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition-10
Crew.
In training classes led by the Corporation’s specialists they used the
onboard video and photographic equipment and the onboard simulators as well.
The Russian cosmonaut Yury Shargin, visiting crew (VC-7) member, also took
part in the training sessions. He exercised handling the analogs of the
amateur radio communication system available onboard the ISS Russian
Segment, DVCAM format video equipment, digital photographic equipment.
