because of the pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 international has been moved to start of the experiment, SIRIUS, the participants had to spend in isolation for eight months. Launch delayed from November 2020 may 2021 th, told in the press service of the Institute of biomedical problems RAS (IBMP).
the postponement of the start of the experiment agreed in the teleconference project managers of the Russian and American sides — Director of IBMP RAS, academician Oleg Orlov and Director of the Program in human studies, NASA bill paloschi.
international project SIRIUS implies in the next five years a series of isolated experiments with a duration of four, eight and 12 months. The IBMP continues to prepare for the experiment “SIRIUS-20/21”, conducting remote meetings with stakeholders in participating organizations: European space Agency, German space Agency, French space Agency, universities and private organizations from France, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic and Belarus. Negotiations with representatives of the space agencies of UAE and India, we study the application to conduct scientific experiments, arrived from Australia and Japan.
the Actual training of the crew of the 240-day experiment, which will consist of six volunteers is expected to begin in the second half of January — beginning of February 2021, reports TASS. The experiment will take place in Moscow on the basis of the IBMP.
the Crew will be in Autonomous ground complex and only communicate with the experiment control center for audio. Communication with the family and relatives will be available via e-mail. Over time insulation will be modeled real moon expedition: flight to the moon, orbiting to search for the landing site, landing and exit to the surface of the moon back to Earth.
