Russian cosmonauts will grow peppers on the International Space Station

Science Nilgun Salim
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The two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz departs on Wednesday in MS-02 from the International Space Station (ISS) will grow peppers in the greenhouse on the orbital platform, reports EFE.

Soyuz rocket will be launched using thrusters at 11:05 am from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Russian, Kazakh steppe situated in the station and is engaged to 24:59 pm on Friday.

Aboard the second Soyuz series, the Russian cosmonauts will be traveling in the spaceship, Sergei Rizhikov (commander) and Andrei Borisenko, along with American astronaut of NASA, Shane Kimbrough.

Borisenko said that scientific experiments provided through the cultivation of peppers are ‘under the lack of gravity’ in the Lada greenhouse and will control remote devices on SSI for exploring other planets.

The three members who will be part of the 50th expedition to the space platform will be welcomed on the ISS by Russian Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese Takutya Onishi and American Kathleen Rubens.

In the coming months, SSI will get more unmanned capsules with materials supply: Russian Progress, American Dragon and Japanese HTV.

The International Space Station is an orbital outpost consisting of 13 interconnected modules, belonging to NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russian Federation), ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA (Japan) and CSA (Canada).

It is the most complex and expensive international project, with costs exceeding 150 billion dollars. Located at 400 km altitude, SSI moves with over 27500 km/s and is inhabited continuously since November 2, 2000.

Today, the crew is formed of 6 astronauts and 3 each is changed every 3 months using only the Soyuz capsule. For supplies, they use to supply cargo ships: Progress (Russia), Dragon (USA), Cygnus (USA) and HTV (Japan).

On 17 July 2009 was achieved a record in terms of a number of people simultaneously in space, 13 of them, all on board the ISS, but was then coupled Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-127).

Because of the solar panels, the ISS can be seen with the naked eye from the ground and can occasionally be the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. International Space Station will be likely used until 2028.