commander of the 20 th crew of the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Gennady Padalka on Monday to carry out experiments Hurricane and Bar, as well as the session begins medical experiment Sonokard reported on Monday an official of the Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC ) Valery Lyndin. Meanwhile, the American astronauts, gostyaschie to the ISS, are prepared on Tuesday to hold the fifth and last of the planned EVAs in open space, and on Tuesday they must leave the station on the Shuttle Endeavour.
In experiment, Bar with the help of various devices worked method of detecting signs of the expiration of air from the ISS modules. According to Lyndina, studies orbital decompression modules were put in orbit after the accident at the complex world when loading the Progress docking rammed the Spektr module, ITAR-TASS news agency.
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As part of the experiment, Hurricane, which seeks to enhance prediction of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, forest fires, hurricanes and other natural disasters on Earth, Padalka conducted numerous surveys of the Earth's surface in the specified areas.
Through this experiment, the purpose of which – a requirement for Earth-space system of prevention of disasters, to find out what equipment is best suited for observation of certain phenomena, to develop methods for rapid transmission of information and its processing, refined in the PCO.
failed the American air system repaired joint effort
Previous ISS crew and attached to the shuttle Endeavour repaired the American system of cleaning the air, out of order on Saturday, reported on Monday in TsUPe.
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