Participant of the SIRIUS-19 120-day isolation experiment Reinhold Povilaitis, of the United States, poses for a photo after leaving the ground-based experimental complex, in Moscow, Russia. The experiment of a simulated moon flight, called SIRIUS (Scientific International Research in Unique Terrestrial Station), started in March. It has reproduced the main stages of a real space flight to the Moon, including the flight itself, search for a landing site, landing, stay in the Moon’s orbit, remote control of the lunar rover that will prepare the base, and return to Earth.
- Package: Russia Moon Simulation Experiment
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 17.07.2019
- Date published: 17.07.2019
- Author: Alexey Filippov
- Source: Sputnik
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4306x2966px, 8.1Mb
- Job-ID: 65de6ad0b0d389b6