NASA invited the Russian scientists a new research program on the International Space Station (ISS). Americans offer a series of annual joint flights American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut partially unified research program.
– We are now actively preparing for the first joint annual expedition to the ISS – told “Izvestia” Oleg Orlov, Deputy Director of the Institute Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. – An intensive phase of preparation for the flight, and is being shared by the expert groups. Next week in Moscow comes a group of senior officials and experts from NASA to continue the development of a joint program and discuss the prospects. American partners offer us to continue the series of annual operations in the same format: Cosmonauts and astronauts operate partly a joint research program.
According to Orlov, Russian scientists are now discussing a proposal NASA. But in general, the idea expressed by our American partners like scientists.
– We are interested, but not from the point of view of studying the impact on the human body a large number of days in space, and with a view to working out medical support interplanetary missions, – says Orlov . – Our institute has accumulated considerable experience in extremely long flight – a year or more were flying at the station “Mir” to 6 people. The staff of our institute was Valery Polyakov, world record holder, who spent in orbit continuously 438 days. Testing of medical support future interplanetary missions will allow us to gain more new knowledge and skills than just a study of the effect of super-long expeditions to the person.
The system of medical support interplanetary missions significantly different from the same system for orbital flights. Interplanetary flights autonomous. If today all the systems on the ISS care plan are under constant supervision from the Earth, the crew of the spaceship will be mostly to himself. Accordingly, there must be some training of crew (including the possibility of surgical care on board) must be set up special funds supervision and support of health.
– We are also interested in experiments to create artificial gravity to allow comfortable working man in different gravitational conditions – says Orlov. – Now come back to this subject in many countries around the world.
The artificial gravity can be created in two ways. The first – the rotation of the ship or the entire ship. Inside the rotating device creates gravity due to centrifugal forces. At the current level of technology is feasible, but quite expensive. Another method is more pragmatic: is short-radius centrifuge, the astronaut is placed into it for a while – to restore blood flow and function of other physiological systems. The idea is to develop and test a centrifuge.
In the Moscow office of NASA did not comment on the situation.
A high-ranking source in the Russian Space Agency said “Izvestia” that the space agency NASA knows about the initiative .
– We believe that the testing of medical support interplanetary missions corresponds prospective challenges facing the Russian manned space flight, – says the source of “Izvestia” Roskosmos. – In the thirties of this century planned expedition to the moon. And we have a unique opportunity to begin preparations for this project in the coming years.
The representative of the Russian Federal Space Agency said that recently their proposals for research work on the ISS formulated Chinese partnery.Kak already wrote “Izvestia”, the Chinese organization in November this year offered Roscosmos hold a series of joint projects on the International Space Station. Among other things, the Chinese asked to review research involving prolonged exposure of the Chinese specialist on board the ISS. Chinese partners sent for review to the Federal Space Agency more than a dozen projects involving research programs aboard the station.
Proposals for research on the ISS are made both by the China National Space Administration, and from scientific organizations, in particular from Peking University . The proposed projects are now transferred to the examination in RAS institutes.
– The Americans are always very seriously signals from our leadership. Including seriously they perceived the statement [Deputy Prime Minister] Dmitry Rogozin the imminent release of the Russian ISS project – says Ivan Moiseyev, scientific director of the Space Policy Institute. – We offered them to organize annual flight a few years ago, but then they refused. Now they realize that for the remaining years of the ISS need to squeeze maximum benefit, the more that experience long flights they have too much no, but on Mars they eventually plan to fly. It is logical that they offer such programs.
The first joint flight to the ISS for a period of a year the American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko is scheduled for 2015.
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