Une deuxième mission d'un an est déjà prévue à bord d'ISS

The second annual expedition on ISS (International Space Station) planned to the first half of 2017
On June 5, 2014   the 17:31


Moscow. On June 5. INTERFAX.RU - The Russian Space Agency and NASA discuss the opportunity of the sending one additional annual expedition onboard the International Space Station (ISS (International Space Station)) the year after the shutdown of the first annual crew, reported “to Interfax” source in the rocket-space branch.
“Fundamental decision on this question is accepted. The second annual expedition will begin work in orbit in the first half of 2017. Now occurs the selection of candidates for the participation in flight”, said the collocutor of agency.
The first annual expedition, as it communicated, will leave for the flight it will in 2015 and return onto the ground in 2016. With the annual mission on ISS (International Space Station) will leave Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and American astronaut Scott by Kelly.
It earlier also communicated that NASA proposed to Russian side to conduct to still pyat-shest annual expeditions on ISS (International Space Station) after the completion of the already planned during the years 2015-2016 first expedition. “In the case of approval the first of the additional annual missions, most likely, will begin the year after the end of this first expedition”, reported in May American media outlets with the reference to the manager of the manned programs of NASA Bill Paloskya.
These flights, asserts the representative of NASA, they are necessary for the collection of medical statistics with the preparation of manned space flight to Mars. It assumed that in the additional annual flights one place can occupy the Russian cosmonaut, and the second the representative of Europe, Canada, Japan.