September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...Interkosmos space programme. IBMP staff took an active part in international medical and biological research on the Salyut-6, Salyut-7 and Mir Earth-orbiting space stations involving experts and cosmonaut-researchers from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... the Russian Academy of Sciences (MBPI RAS) back when Salyut 6 orbital station was in operation. The fifth main crew ...fungus) and aspergilli. During the fifth main expedition to the Salyut 7 orbital station, a message was received from the cosmonauts...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... 1973. Cosmonauts Oleg Atkov and Leonid Kizim conducting research on board Salyut-7 in 1984. On 27-29 September 1973, Vasily Lazarev embarked on..., Oleg Atkov played a part in a mission to the Salyut-7 space station, where he spent 237 days. His tasks ...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
.... This is not necessarily as surprising as it might sound. In 1978, the USSR conducted the Opros questionnaire on board Salyut to help psychologists correlate physical and mental health. Sense of smell was considered an important enough factor in the...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... Soyuz-30 spaceship. The purpose of the trip was an eight day mission to conduct experiments on the Soviet station Salyut 62 and he was the first (and to this day remains the only) Polish national in space. Poland’s PW-Sat...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
...of life support systems such as water recycling units, radiators or even spacesuits. Such incidents were observed in the Salyut, Mir and Skylab stations and continue to be a challenging threat on board the ISS. An example of in-flight Surface Sampler...
