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Expedition 18 (ISS-18)

Experiments Program

During ISS-18, 218 sessions of 46 experiments are planned to be implemented. Fourty one experiments were started in the previous increments. Five experiments (“Impuls”, “Rusalka”, “Fizika-Obrazovanie”, “MATI-75”, “EXPOSE-R”) are new.

Breakdown of Experiments by Research Areas

Research Area	Experiment Name
Human life research	Sonocard, Pilot, Dykhanie, Pnevmocard, Biorisk, Rastenia
Geophysical research	Relaksatsia, Uragan, Impuls, Vsplesk, Plasma-MKS, Plasma-Progress, Ten'-Mayak
Earth resources sensing	Diatomeya, Rusalka, Ekon
Space biotechnology	Glidoproteid, Mimetik-K, KAF, Vaktsina-K, Lactolen, ARIL, OCHB, Biotrek, Conjugatsia, Biodegradatsia, Bioemulsiya, Interleukin-K, Zhenshen-2, Antigen
Technical research	Vektor-T, Izgib, Identifikatsiya, Sreda-MKS, Bar, Expert
Contract activities	GTS-2, EXPOSE-R
Study of cosmic rays	BTN-Neutron, Matroshka-R
Educational and humanitarian projects	Fizika-Obrazovanie, MATI-75, MAI-75
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-13 by Progress M-01M by Progress M-66 TOTALLY:	24.51 kg 121.13 kg 16.88 kg 162.52 kg
	Return of materials with SE results: by Soyuz TMA-12 by Shuttle in flight ULF2 by Soyuz TMA-13 TOTALLY:	32.00 kg 7.65 kg 13.93 kg 53.58 kg
POWER CONSUMPTION
	Continuous Daily average	300.0 W 499.2 W
CREW TIME
	ISS-18 Flight Engineer Yu. Lonchkov (Russia) ISS-18 Crew Commander M. Fincke (USA) TOTALLY:	155 h 15 min 6 h 25 min 161 h 40 min
RECORDING AND TRANSFER OF SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
	Sample Kits, including: Material sample containers Protein and cell cultivators Microorganism propagators, biosamples Passive dosimeters pouch Electronic data carriers including: Video tapes Photo cassettes Hard drives, memory units Floppy disks Memory cards Telemetry data	28 5 10 11 2 71 21 10 2 13 25 7,2 Gbyte