“It will be a training session, an imitation of such a flight, to see how people will feel there and what kind of stress they will have,” RIA Novosti quotes the scientist.
It is noted that the experiment is scheduled for mid-April and will last two weeks.
The crew will include four men and two women - employees of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Earlier it was reported that scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have created a laboratory prototype of the device for the future Russian heavy "Lunokhod-geologist", which is designed to search for minerals.