Teams of astronauts may
soon start work on the International Space Station is not for 6 months, as
before, and for the year, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.
First annual expedition
will be experimental and will not until 2015 to carry out a test mission will
select two players - one a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut. If all goes
well, than will be considering a one-year term for expeditions to the ISS on a
regular basis.
Federal Space Agency
over the years has repeatedly stated his desire to try to experiment on human
long stay in space, like the mission "Mars-500" when the European
Space Agency and Roscosmos in 2010-2011. Simulate on Earth to Mars mission
duration of 500 days.
NASA researchers also
believe that six months on the ISS astronauts in weightlessness, are consistent
with the maximum duration of stay in space for future members of the expedition
to the Red Planet, and that special tests with increased length of stay at the
space station are, strictly speaking, unnecessary.
But they both agree
that the first annual mission will assess the impact of long-term stay on the
ISS on the health of astronauts.
However, this mission
will not set a record for the length of stay of man in space - Russian
cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent more than 437 consecutive days at the space
station "Mir" from January 1994 to March 1995
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