SIRIUS-21 Mission patch.
July 7, 2022
Five members of the SIRIUS-21 crew will leave the terrestrial experimental center of the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems after 240 days in isolation
Five members of the SIRIUS-21 crew will leave the terrestrial experimental center of the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems after 240 days in isolation.
The participation of Asgardia’s representative Victoria Kirichenko in the SIRIUS-21 experiment is the first step in the implementation of this agreement.
Image above: Asgardia's Resident, physician Viktoria Kirichenko is the first to exit the containment unit of the IMBP ground test facility.
"The SIRIUS-21 space study will end on July 3, 2022 at 13.00 pm. Five members of the international crew (three men and two women) spent 240 hours within its framework in the environment simulating operation of a real space expedition at a near-Moon orbital station and the Moon’s surface. The crew will leave ‘the spacecraft’ and return to the Earth," the Institute’s press service said.
Researchers-volunteers from Russia, the US and the UAE staged more than seventy experiments during the study in various areas, such as psychology, psychophysiology, physiology, sanitary hygiene, microbiology, biochemistry and so on. Furthermore, the crew performed Moon landing operations, moonwalk and rover control.
Image above: On July 3, a five-member crew, including representatives of Russia, the United States, the Arab Emirates and Asgardia, left the containment module at the test station of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMPB RAS). This means the main part of the experiment SIRIUS-21, which started exactly eight months ago, is complete. Now doctors will have to study the data and biomaterials obtained during these 240 days and sum up the results.
The SIRIUS-21 study is the third milestone of the SIRIUS (Scientific International Research in Unique terrestrial Station) international project. The project provides for a series of isolation studies. The next experiment to simulate the long-range space flight will last for a year and will begin in July - November 2023. Three year-long studies are planned by 2028.
Related articles:
Space brings people together on Earth. The end of the SIRIUS-21 experiment
https://asgardia.space/en/news/Space-brings-people-together-on-Earth
The international experiment SIRIUS-21 starts
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-international-experiment-sirius-21.html
European research for interplanetary isolation
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/12/european-research-for-interplanetary.html
Related links:
Asgardia - The Space Nation: https://asgardia.space/en/
SIRIUS-21: http://sirius.imbp.info/eng.html
Images, Text, Credits: IMBP RAS/TASS/Asgardia/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga (AMP).
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