An international experiment to simulate interplanetary space flight, the SIRIUS-23 project (Scientific International Research In Unique terrestrial Station), has been launched in Russia. It will last 365 days.
The experiment will be conducted on the basis of the ground complex of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in order to study the mechanisms of adaptation of the human body to the conditions of annual isolation.
This complex with an artificial habitat has no analogues in the world. It was designed and built by the Soviet scientist Sergei Pavlovich Korolev as a model of a heavy interplanetary ship. The complex was put into operation in 1971. SIRIUS-23 will be held with the participation of a number of international organizations, scientists from India, the USA, Turkey, Canada and other countries.
The main team of testers included: crew commander Yuri Chebotarev (Russia), doctor Ksenia Orlova (Russia), flight engineer Angelika Parfenova (Russia), as well as researchers Rustam Zaripov (Russia), Ksenia Shishenina (Russia) and Olga Mastitskaya (Belarus).
"Isolation studies allow us to solve a whole range of problems of the terrestrial plane, for example, in the field of extreme physiology. The complex has no analogues in the world and has always attracted the attention of foreign colleagues," said the director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems RAN Oleg Orlov.
The first experiment within the framework of the project was conducted in November 2017. It lasted 17 days.
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