STAR CITY (Moscow Region), October 11 – RIA Novosti. who returned in September from the ISS crew has made a significant contribution to the development of outer space, including the development of interplanetary flight, the director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), Igor Ushakov, Russian Academy of Sciences on Friday.
“to work out a new regime of work and rest before preparing to fly on a new, six-hour chart, the astronauts 35/36-y expedition of Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and Christopher Cassidy took a tremendous effort of the entire team. It is their mission has become a point of reference chetyrehvitkovoy to the manner in which now fly and will fly astronauts, “- he said at a post-flight press conference at the Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow (CPC).
Ushakov added that “the crew of the station held a series of unique experiments, such as” fil-test “, which brought the possibility of interplanetary flight and brought a lot of information for the upcoming annual flight.”
In turn, the commander of the cosmonaut Sergei Volkov said that “the program of the crew was very busy, they made it completely, which is good.” “It is psychologically stable, professional and well-knit team,” – he stressed.
“During the spacewalk, which was attended Alexander Misurkin, we have set a record – worked in the open space 7 hours 30 minutes, a record set by that Russian space suit” – said the astronaut.
Volkov said that over the 166 days that the crew spent on the space station, was carried out 45 scientific research and experiments, as well as each of the astronauts spent on the 130 hours of personal time into independent experiments “- continued Wolves.
“Certainly more such brilliant work crew – a merit of the CPC.’s nice to know that we meet these trained people,” – said the head of Roskosmos space programs Alexei Krasnov.
head of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Russia Rene Pishel thanked the Russian cosmonauts for helping European colleagues.
“I want to buy a jewelry work guys (Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin – Ed.), When in the course of the next release they had jewelry work by tightening the cap antennas. Also express my deep gratitude for the help to our astronaut Luca Parmitano during the exit on the European program (astronaut in a spacesuit oxygen leak happened – Ed.) We are very grateful for the help in a critical situation, “- said Pishel.
Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA Astronaut Christopher Cassidy worked on orbit for more than 165 days, returning to Earth on September 13 in the descent vehicle “Soyuz TMA-08M.” Currently working in orbit Russians Oleg Kotov, Ryazan Sergei and Fedor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Karen Nyberg and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano.
Kotov, Ryazan and Hopkins arrived at the ISS on September 26 spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-10M.” The others work at the station since May this year.
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