In the area of the 103 Functional Functional Block “Zarya” of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) found the excess content of fragments of mold fungi in the air, it is said in the published magazine “Pilotable flights to Cosmos” by the article by the Institute of Medical Biological Problems ( ICBP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts (CPC) following the expedition of the crew of the ISS-64 from October 2020 to April 2021.
Gas media studies were conducted on January 20 of the current year in 16 zones “, followed by incubating samples, photographing the grew colonies of microorganisms and transmission of the image to the Earth.” Bacteria were detected on 13 of the 16 zones studied. The quantitative level of the semination of the air environment by representatives of the bacterial flora did not exceed the regulatory indicators, but the content of fragments of mold mushrooms in one of the sixteen zones turned out to be higher than the normative ten percent.
In September, RIA Novosti reported that Russian astronauts on board the ISS told about the smell in the “Star” module, which appeared in the area of the operating air conditioning system (SLE).
Module “Zarya” – the very first and oldest on the ISS. Launched in November 1998. Made by the center of Khrunichev on the ordering Boeing. Formally refers to the Russian segmante of the ISS.