MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Oleg Orlov said that the new experiments would include a mixture of sexes for the crews, as opposed to the previous Mars-500 and Luna-2015 simulations.
“After the Luna-2015 program with a crew of six female volunteers ends in 2015, we plan to begin a whole series of projects on simulated space flights between 14 days and 12 months with volunteers from Russia, the United States, Europe, and Japan,” Oleg Orlov said.
“The IBMP’s Earth module that was used earlier in the Mars-500 project will be reequipped with a new block of virtual reality with more capabilities. Moreover, a separate segment in the module will be designated for the creation of a housing with a lowered magnetic field that is particularly important for simulating the conditions of space flights,” Orlov said.
