Information Technologies of Training Cosmonauts for a Space Flight

The paper shows historical aspects of the application of computer-based information systems, providing the process of cosmonaut training for a space flight at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. These systems include: systems ensuring the operation of simulation complexes for cosmonaut training, computer-assisted instruction systems (computer-assisted simulators), databases for storing the results of cosmonaut selection and training, information-management systems of cosmonaut training, cosmonaut training planning systems, data retrieval systems (electronic libraries, electronic catalogs), multimedia complexes, etc.