Cosmonauts will conduct up to five or six experiments a year in "Science"
MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. The cosmonauts have already started conducting experiments in the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science". This was announced in an interview with TASS by twice Hero of the Soviet Union, General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Solovyov.
"Experiments are already more or less being carried out. Finally, a multi-zone electric furnace has arrived on the ISS, now it is being installed in place, " Solovyov said on the eve of the 75th anniversary of RSC Energia.
According to the general designer, it is planned to conduct five or six experiments of various directions in the module per year.
The multi-purpose laboratory module "Science" was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 21, and on July 29 it docked to the ISS. MLM is intended for the implementation of the Russian program of scientific and applied research and experiments. After its commissioning, 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. With Nauka, Russian cosmonauts should get a second toilet, a cabin for a third crew member, as well as a European ERA manipulator, which will allow them to perform some work without going into outer space.
Read the full text of the interview at 12: 00 Moscow time on the TASS website