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Expedition 12 (ISS-12)

Experiments Program

During ISS-12, 318 sessions of 44 experiments are to be implemented. Thirty five experiments were started in the previous increments. Nine experiments ("Volny", "Bioemulsia", "RadioSkaf", "Sreda", "Infotech", "JAXA-3DPC", "SCN", "NOA", "Immuno") are new.

Breakdown of Experiments by Research Areas

Research Area	Experiment Name
Human life research	"Sprut-MBI", "Cardio-ODNT", "Profilaktika", "Pulse", "Gematologia" "Pilot", Biorisk, "Akvarium", Rastenia-2, "Intercellular interaction", "Statokonia", "Regeneratsia", "Prognos"
Geophysical research	"Relaksatsia", "Uragan", "Plasma-MKS"
Earth resources sensing	Diatomeya, Volny, Ekon
Space biotechnology	"Konjugatsia", "Biodegradation", "Bioekologia", "Bioemulsia"
Technical research	"Meteoroid", "Vector-T", "Izgib", "Identifikatsiya", "Skorpion", "RadioSkaf", "Sreda-MKS", "Infotekh", "Kromka"
Contract activities	GTS, "GCF-JAXA", "Rokviss", "JAXA-3DPC", "SCN", "Cardiocog-4", "NOA", "Immuno"
Study of cosmic rays	Matroshka-R
Space technology and material science	SVS, Crystallizator, Plasma Crystal

For implementation of the еxperiments program the following is required:

CARGO FLOW
	Ascent to ISS RS: by Soyuz TMA-7 by Progress M-55 by Soyuz TMA-8 TOTALLY:	17.19 kg 132.69 kg 17,69 kg 167,57 kg
	Return of materials with SE results: by Soyuz TMA-6 by Soyuz TMA-7 TOTALLY:	38,66 kg 42,90 kg 81,56 kg
POWER CONSUMPTION
	Continuous Daily average	86 W 200 W
CREW TIME
	Crew Commander W.McArthur (USA) Flight Engineer V. Tokarev (RF) TOTALLY:	13 h 15 min 186 h 55 min 200 h 10 min
RECORDING AND TRANSFER OF SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
	Sample Kits - Electronic data carriers - Onboard logbook sheets - Telemetry data	42 kits 56 pcs. 17 sheets 13,4 Gbyte