communicates from Russian cosmonaut INTERNATIONAL STATION
radial transmission lasted about ten minutes. There is the possibility of sending Peruvian potatoes on the next mission
"I was in Machu Picchu and I really enjoyed," said cosmonaut Gennady Ivanovich Padalka from the International Space Station (ISS) in what was the first contact from space with our country.
The nearly one hundred people who attended the National Engineering University (UNI) to listen to the live broadcast broke into applause. Contrary to what many thought, the man who spoke from space did know Peru.
This communication is made possible by a cooperative agreement between UNI and the University of Kursk in Russia, which agreed to establish contact with the ISS as it flew into Earth orbit in the area of \u200b\u200bSouth America.
"At this moment I am taking pictures of Lima," the commander Padalka.
The link was brief and Russian cosmonaut took the opportunity to answer some questions, asked by scientists and local students on the research being conducted on the ISS. SUPPORT
MUTUOEl interest in the home of Russian studies is oriented toward a joint project in the area of \u200b\u200bbiology, in which experience with Peruvian potato for future use as food for Russian cosmonauts in space voyages. "The crew of the country planning a trip to Mars that will last for about three years. And while the cosmonauts are fed mainly with synthetic products, we are seeing how they do it with a natural food such as potato, "said the rector of the UNI, Aurelio Padilla.
The idea is to test how they react the components of the potato to the lack of gravity in space and see if we can grow crops for the future.
"The potato crop provides multiple options, one is to reduce the volume on earth to dehydrate and to restore their natural size when it is in the space station, the other is to cultivate, analyze their development and then harvest it, "said Padilla.
One fact that contributed significantly in implementing the Convention and the transmission from space was the familiarity with the experts at the University of Kursk see students and faculty at UNI, as with many of them maintain constant communication because exchange of academic information that they do.
"The success of this link with the space to say that our cooperation project with the UNI will have a long way. I'm sure with the technology that Peru will soon be in space, "said Oleg Atakishchev, vice chancellor of the University of Kursk.
participate in the project as partners the Congress and the Ministry of Defence. Taken
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Trade of August 21, 2009
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