Returning Astronauts Brought to Earth Transform Cancer Drugs
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | November 26, 2010 14:35
In 7 hours 46 minutes Moscow time, the Soyuz TMA-19 delivered a cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock to Earth. The unit made a soft landing 70 kilometers north of the Kazakh town of Arkalyk. After landing, the helicopter will bring space travel to Kustanai, which will be held on their medical examination. Specialists search and rescue teams assessed the health of astronauts returning to earth as satisfactory. After exiting the spacecraft heating system suits the astronauts will not work, independent power source they are not provided.
Therefore, immediately after landing in the Kazakh steppe astronauts offered hot tea and sat them in chairs and hid the warm blankets. The temperature in the landing area was about 10 degrees Celsius, wind south-easterly with gusts of 3-5 meters per second.
Landing and the discovery of capsule provided 18 helicopters and aircraft search and rescue services. In Kustanai road crew of the Soyuz TMA-19 diverge: Fyodor Yurchikhin will go to rehabilitation in the Cosmonaut Training Center, and Walker and Wheelock will head to the recovery in the United States, ITAR-TASS. By the way, Walker has denied one of the common misconceptions that a woman aboard a ship – unfortunately, the landing took place as planned.
Yurchikhin, Walker and Wheelock worked in orbit 162 days. The crew received, unloaded and loaded the waste equipment, three Russian cargo spacecraft “Progress”. Initially, as planned arrival of two space shuttles, but the space shuttle launches for various reasons, repeatedly postponed, and now they will take the following crews.
Fyodor Yurchikhin also conducted two spacewalks. In the first, which he has worked in tandem with already returned to Earth by Mikhail Kornienko, was integrated into the Russian segment of the station, a new module “Dawn” (MIM-1). The second output of the cosmonaut had with Oleg Skripochka, who along with team-mates remains in orbit until March 2011. For 6.5 hours the Russians have equipped at COP universal workstation for scientific experiments.
High-class work in a vacuum, and ex-commander of the ISS Douglas Wheelock: together with the already returned to Earth Tracy Caldwell Dyson, he worked three times behind the American segment of the station, having an open space for a total of more than 20 hours.
The astronauts brought the detectors from the withdrawn dummy “Matryoshka-R”, by which scientists investigate the effects of radiation to critical organs of the body. Also were delivered to Earth samples and tapes with the results of experiments on board.
Returned from space and foam with the long-lived space “- cells of ginseng and their” colleagues “- plant cells with the romantic name” Stephanie Rose “. Their orbital trip lasted two months. According to the head of the experiment “Ginseng-2, Tatiana Krasheninnikov,” all the cells had been in space for the second time, still alive, and their activity was lower, and some even higher than in the control group on Earth. “After the impact of space flight, research has shown that productivity of ginseng cells was 20-30 percent higher than their terrestrial relatives. New flight scientists wanted to consolidate these properties to get a better line of cells that can later be producing new miracle drugs that save mankind from many serious diseases, including cancer.
Yurchikhin brought with him a questionnaire in the population census, which he and two other Russians – Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri – fill in the orbit, as well as a book of Leo Tolstoy’s “Sevastopol Stories”. To the ISS on the book was put a special “space” print, confirming the books stay in orbit.
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