Orbiting 370 km altitude, the construction of this station 450 tons started in 1998 and was completed in 2011.
The ISS is occupied permanently for at least six people from the November 2, 2000.
“The most important aspect of the ISS is its space exploration goals inhabited long-term,” said US astronaut Scott Kelly, commander of the current crew, during a press conference live with all his colleagues. Kjell Lindgren US, Russian Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Volkov and Japanese Kimiya Yui
Scott Kelly started in March this year stay a year on the ISS with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko, a record at the station, among other things to study the physiological effects of microgravity for a long period inhabited and prepare missions to Mars in the 2030s.
According to the American astronaut Kjell Lindgren, “ISS is a test of the technologies needed to develop and understand for successful expedition to Mars.”
He stressed that a large number of more than one hundred scientific experiments during their stay and Kornienko Kelly at “are essential to understanding how human physiology adapts to microgravity and what to do to protect health during a long journey to Mars” .
Lindgren explained that a trip to Mars, which could last three years, would have adverse effects on the muscles, bones and immune system as well as increasing the risk of cancer due to exposure to cosmic radiation.
Common ground
The Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko told his side that there are no differences or confrontations aboard the ISS, in an apparent reference to tensions between Moscow and Washington, whose relations are at their lowest level since the Cold War.
“People on Earth is sometimes unable to listen, to talk, while here in space this situation is unimaginable, “he said cosmonaut.
” Here everyone is important and the success of this program, sometimes even the survival of all depends on each of us, “he added Kononenko.
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