This opportunity is due to the equipment and workplaces that are installed on the module, the general director of Roscosmos noted
MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. The multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Nauka" will more than double the number of experiments performed on board the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. He gave a lecture on Monday as part of the Summer Space School.
"[The module] will allow conducting 2.5 times more experiments due to the equipment and workplaces that are installed on the Nauka module," Rogozin said.
MLM Nauka was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 21. On Thursday, the module docked to the ISS. It is intended for the implementation of the Russian program of scientific and applied research and experiments. After the MLM is put into operation, the Russian segment will receive additional volumes for the arrangement of workplaces and cargo storage, the placement of equipment for the regeneration of water and oxygen.
The Summer Space School is an annual scientific and educational program for schoolchildren, students and specialists. This year it takes place from July 31 to August 8 at Skoltech. The school's program is divided into two stages: first, participants take a course of theoretical lectures on astrophysics, cosmonautics, space medicine, space communications, after which they consolidate their knowledge by simulating the flight of an interstellar expedition.
