Will astronauts live 1 year on the ISS station?

Instead of executing a six-month mission, Russia and the United States have an idea and plan to bring the first two astronauts to live on the ISS within a year in 2015.

According to Russia's Interfax news agency, the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) is preparing for a long-term space flight, bringing the astronauts' life time to double the current six-month number and for three years. Come, a 2-person crew will participate in this plan. But officials at the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said they had not made a formal conclusion to the plan.

NASA Humor at the Johnson State Center in Houston - Kelly Humphries said: "We are up to the idea of ​​bringing astronauts to live in the universe for a year in preparation for expeditions to fund research. The religion is low, but no official has made an official decision. "

The cost of building ISS station is up to 100 billion

According to Interfax, the first American to attend a one-year mission on the ISS station is former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Meanwhile, Russian astronauts have not been selected. In addition, the 1-year mission will create a space on the Soyuz spacecraft, so Russia can "sell seats" for visitors who want to visit the ISS station.

If the mission lasts a year on the ISS station to be realized, NASA can carry out more flights to bring people to the ambitious universe. US President - Barack Obama has asked NASA to develop a spacecraft and new technology to bring astronauts to a meteorite in 2025 and to Mars by 2030.

According to calculations, a flight from Earth to Mars will last for 2 years. Therefore, putting astronauts on mission to live on the ISS station within a year is an opportunity for scientists to study the effects of the long flight to the crew's health.

In fact, the one-year flight has been done in the past. In the mid-1990s, Valery Polyakov - Russian astronaut and doctor lived nearly 438 days on the Mir Space Station. This mission lasts from January 1994 to March 1995.

Polyakov astronaut's ability to endure life in space has helped Russian scientists study the long-term physiological and psychological effects of long-term space flight far from Earth.

In 2011, 6 volunteers from Russia, Europe and China miraculously completed the life simulation on Mars that lasted 520 days to create a separate area to study mental pressure when live long on the universe. The Mars500 Mars life simulator is launched from June 2010 - November 2011.

The ISS is currently the Expedition 32 crew's residence with 3 different nationalities including 3 Russian astronauts, 2 Americans and 1 Japanese.

NASA, Russia and the Canadian Space Agency, Europe and Japan have spent $ 100 billion to build the ISS station in more than 10 years and started in 1998. The whole process of building ISS station is contributed by 15 countries.