Jean Pierre Haignere, astronaut, interview from nelly on Vimeo.
Test rig for the Soyuz Chair from nelly on Vimeo.
first experiments on the soyuz chair from nelly on Vimeo.
TV on, an astronaut, an interview, a launch, a chair with a blanket in cross stitch.
Her, in the living room.
Space tourism is having a great success (Virgin Galactic ), The possibility to experiment weightlessness, to feel the thrill of the liftoff and finally to meet the unknown isn’t fantasy anymore. But the access is still very reduced…. If you don’t have the profile to be a cosmonaut or the qualifications, if you don’t have money either, then you can’t be part of it. The only thing that last, is finally your TV set with documentaries on space travel, your dream-fascination and your obsession-passion
Brief Description=
The final piece will be one living room chair customized in order to recreate the 10 min liftoff of the Soyuz Rocket. You’ll be able to bend it, face towards the ceiling, when you’ll want to use it for your training. The aim is to reproduce the way cosmonauts are in the cockpit. It comes with a remote control, so you can tune your exercise, either 10 minutes lift off and so 3 different stages of intensity. Or just the last stage 240 seconds, the most extreme one (a rocket has an exponential speed).
Aim and objectives of the project=
Practically: By trying to reproduce the reality in the detail (with the help of the cosmonaut Jean Pierre Haignere), the inclination of the chair, the frequencies of the vibration, the sound…, the Soyuz chair will make possible the concretization in the real world of a dream.
Conceptually: The Soyuz chair brings the debate on
- the democratization of space and science
- the creative possibility of a domesticated space
- the power of human passion.