[FPSPACE] Video of ground tester working on Soyuz pyro bolt

[Jim Oberg]

Video of ground tester working on Soyuz pyro bolt

Any suggested explanations of actions/tools would be
appreciated. There are the thruster covers to block prop
leakage, then the cutters and tools including the 'dinosaur'
cutters. I don't see the blast-proof container unless it's that
soft bag at the end. Help!?

See http://issblog.ru/

The 4 min video seems to end before the bolt is secured.

Notice a third hand magically appearing from time to time
to push/pull flaps and cables and stuff. Neat trick.

This will be quite a challenge under flight conditions.
Especially since the crew won't ever have touched
this training mockup -- but I'm sure they've been
watching videos of it.

NASA's press conference is tomorrow (Tuesday) 
at 1 PM CDT, that's 1800 GMT. 

Watch it at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
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