Cosmonaut Kornienko told about his condition after a year on the ISS – RIA Novosti

Star City, March 14 – RIA Novosti Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko said that after a year of flight to the International Space Station (ISS) feels better than after the last semi-annual expedition to the ISS

“I feel better now than after six months of flight,” – said Kornienko on Monday during a press conference in the mission control Center. YA Gagarin. He also noted that currently spends on the ground a lot of experiments and even after returning from orbit continues to do hard work.

The participants of the annual mission, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Scott Kelly (NASA), and Sergei Volkov ( Roscosmos), the spent half a year in orbit on March 2, returned to Earth with the ISS. Kelly and Kornienko worked in orbit 340 days, a record for a US representative.

On board the ISS is now awaiting the arrival of Earth shifts were Timothy Kopra (US NASA), Timothy Peak (United Kingdom, ESA) and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia, Roscosmos). The next expedition will travel to the ISS on 19 March. In its structure into orbit flying Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Jeffrey Williams, who will become the commander of the crew of 47.