“Taking into account the current situation, the parties agreed that it is advisable to postpone the launch of the 8-month experiment from November 2020 until the end of May next year,” the RAS Institute press service quoted TASS as saying.
At the same time, crew training is scheduled to begin in the second half of January - early February 2021.
At the same time, the project organizers continue to prepare for the experiment, holding meetings with European organizations interested in participating remotely.
In 2019, Jennifer Fogarty, chief scientific adviser at NASA's Human Research Program, told RT that the SIRIUS experiment planned to artificially isolate mission members from the family and the outside world in order to understand how a group of people can function together in isolation.