Astronauts Will Practice ‘Landing on a Different Planet’

It is clear how much speed and range the technologies we use in space travel give us. Even if we send instruments to planets in the Solar System for study we’re not getting there yet with manned missions. It is out of the question for an astronaut to use a sentence like “I’ll stop by Mars in 2 minutes” while returning from a mission. But we better get used to this concept when that is possible someday.

A crew on the International Space Station (ISS) will undergo a test to prepare for such spontaneous situations in the future. The crew returning from orbit to Earth, as if landing on another planet Landing anywhere in the world will stay there for a few days.

They will camp without help

Oleg Kotov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a recent press release that a crew returning to Earth from the International Space Station will try to land on a different planet. that they will stay where they landed on Earth explained.

of Kotov “The crew is scheduled to spend a day or two near the landing pod after its return to Earth. So rescuers won’t be sent there, but they as if landing on the surface of a planet some equipment will be supplied” The exercise he describes in his words will not be performed for the first time. A similar experiment was conducted in 2017 and took 17 days. In 2019, a four-month experiment was conducted between March and July. Thanks to these experiments, the things and deficiencies that astronauts may need in the Mars mission, where communication delays may occur, will be determined.