MOSCOW. March 19 (Interfax) - The participants in the SIRIUS-19 experiment simulating the flight to the Moon have begun working at a ground facility.
At 2 p.m. Moscow time, a mixed crew began its four-month-long simulation flight to the Moon as part of the SIRIUS project, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The experiment is being conducted at the Ground Experimental Complex of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
"This four-month experiment simulates the flight of a crew of six to the moon with subsequent circumnavigation and search for a place to land, landing by four crewmembers to conduct operations on the surface, a period in lunar orbit to receive supply spacecraft and remote operation of the lunar rover to prepare the base, and subsequent return to Earth," Mark Belakovsky, general manager of the project, said earlier.