For the medium and high-altitude flights from 6,700 m (22,000 ft), Rapha\u00ebl Domjan will use a helmet equipped with a fighter pilot mask oxygen supply, developed by test pilot Miguel Iturmendi based on his experience with the Perlan II project. Initial tests will be done out of Colombier airport using a high-end ULM aircraft. The system of oxygen supply is simple and effective, with two 2 l bottles of oxygen connected one after the other to the mask. The flow of oxygen will adjust according to the needs of the pilot.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the year, as you know, we visited our partner Zvezda in Moscow. The purpose of the trip was to check on modifications to the space suit that Rapha\u00ebl will wear during his high-altitude flights.<\/p>\n
Following our stay, the Zvezda team made some additional adjustments and now, the space suit has been delivered to Payerne where Rapha\u00ebl will get used to wearing it in the simulator and during the test flights.<\/p>\n
Rapha\u00ebl Domjan recently had the privilege of experiencing weightlessness alongside Charlie Duke, the 10th<\/sup>\u00a0man to walk on the moon (Apollo 16 mission), during a Zero Gravity flight above Toulouse in France.<\/p>\n Co-organised by SolarStratos and Lukas Viglietti, founder and president of SwissApollo, the parabolic flight on an Airbus from Novespace, was historic with three generations of astronaut onboard.<\/p>\n In addition to Charlie Duke, the illustrious group included Jean-Francois Clervoy, a senior ESA astronaut who has completed three space missions with NASA and is president of Novespace and Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut with two six-hour extravehicular sorties to his name.<\/p>\n
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