He arrived with the ISS crew participated in “Martian” experiment – Russian newspaper

The astronauts who returned yesterday from the ISS, immediately after landing took part in a medical experiment that will help scientists in the preparation of human flight to Mars.

– Despite the fact that over 199 days of work on the ISS, they spent hundreds of scientific experiments in the world was waiting another test – according to the website NASA. – In the medical tent, located near the landing site, they staged a series of tests, including a balance. The astronauts had to make different movements during walking, step over obstacles.

What is it? It’s simple: when the first humans to land on the red planet after a long stay in space, they can not pass the test at the doctors. Therefore, when planning future missions to Mars, it is so important to know how the human body adapts to weightlessness after gravity.

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The experiment, which was attended by three returning from the ISS crew – this is only one step in a journey to Mars. Other works devoted to this purpose, the participants of the 42nd and 43rd of expeditions carried out directly on the ISS. Among them – experiments in the field of biology and biotechnology, for Earth and Space, the study of the human body, the exact sciences.

Research on the ISS include the technology and create a space for tools of 3D-printers. It can be very useful for long-range flights.

Yesterday afternoon around Moscow “Soyuz TMA-15M” with the crew undocked from the International Space Station and headed for Earth. About five o’clock in the evening lander successfully landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The capsule were three: Russian Anton Shkaplerov, American and Italian Teri Verts Samantha Kristoforetti. Along with them came to Earth the results of scientific experiments. According to the plans, the astronauts had to land on a month earlier, but because of an accident on a spaceship “Progress” deadlines had to be moved.

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Monitoring the arrivals astronauts will continue for several weeks, until they are again getting used to life on Earth. This should give professionals the data that will be used during the next ISS training and preparation of a manned flight to Mars.

What are the challenges the scientists are trying to solve? The human body is experiencing many changes in conditions of weightlessness. For example, loss of bone and muscle mass. In addition, more than half of the astronauts observed changes in vision, headaches.

Now to the ISS runs the annual flight of the two astronauts – Russian Mikhail Kornienko and American Scott Kelly. They will remain in orbit until next spring. This is an opportunity in the real weightless work elements of future interplanetary missions.

In the plans of NASA – the organization of the first human trip to Mars is about 2030-ies.

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