Volunteers who are isolated for a year were presented at a conference on space medicine

The “flight” to Mars will begin on November 14

Six volunteers, who will be isolated from the world for a whole year, were presented by the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the XVIII Conference on Space and Aerospace Medicine, which began in Moscow on November 7. For the first time, a representative of Belarus was included in the crew.

According to the SIRIUS program, the interplanetary spacecraft, the functions of which will be performed by the scientific and experimental complex of the institute, will set off on a “flight” along the Earth-Mars-Earth route for a whole year.

The team that went through a special selection system included: production automation specialist from Novosibirsk Yuri Chebotarev (crew commander), Khabarovsk Airlines pilot Anzhelika Parfenova, allergist Ksenia Orlova, Olga Mastitskaya – junior researcher at the Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, junior researcher at IBMP Ksenia Shishenina and doctor Rustam Zaripov.

The experiment will involve many medical-biological, physiological and psychological experiments.

For example, Anzhelika Parfenova will be responsible for conducting an experiment to study bone density during long-term isolation.

Allergist Ksenia Orlova, who is also a resident of the space state of Asgardia, will conduct a series of experiments on immunology, and Olga Mastitskaya will study the functioning of the hearts of crew members before, during and after physical activity. Ksenia Shishenina will be responsible for psychological support (she will test new methods on colleagues), and Rustam Zaripov will be responsible for experiments on finding a person in a hypomagnetic environment.

Immediately after the performance, the six “cosmonauts” went to the institute, where they will be kept in observation mode until the launch.