Hungarian engineer Tibor Kapu will become part of the international crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 29. This was published in an interview with reporters, the first and so far the only TV of Hungary Bertalan Farkash, who is the consultant for his flight training program.
He has just visited Houston (Texas), at the center of the National Director of the United States on aviation and space research (NASA), training and training a group of four people continuing. The commander of the ship was appointed as an American astronaut with experience Peggy Witson, and the Shubhanshu Shubhanshu of India Shubhanshu and the Astronaut of the European Space Agency Pole Slavosh Receptionizen will include a crew with Hungary engineer. They will take a trip to the stars on the dragon train, which needs to be put on the trajectory of the car to launch Falcon 9.
The beginning was appointed on May 29. Kapa was completely ready for the flight, the Farkash guy, who met him in Histon, guaranteed.
If everything happens as planned, Kapu will become the second citizen of Hungary, who will visit the space.
Farkash admitted that he was very happy that his fellow countryman's flight was planned at the end of May, when 45 years ago, he went with astronaut Valery Kubasov to the Soviet Salian trajectory station of the Soviet Union. In this regard, the celebration of the small memory is planned in Hungary and if the Kapa journey, the ISS will succeed, a double occasion will appear to pay attention to the achievements of the national space program.
Over the past two years, Kapu has overcome a long competitive option and has become a candidate for flying to ISS as agreed with NASA and the US Axiom Space company, participating in space tourism and developing space technologies. He will spend 30 days at the station and will conduct a number of scientific experiments on a program compiled by the Hungarian University and Center for Research. Farkash is very happy that another person will appear in Hungary, who will send the universe and consider it important to the country with scientific and political views.
Farkash is the fifth universe from socialist countries, participants in the InterSmos program after colleagues from Czechoslovakia, Poland, GDR and Bulgaria. He traveled on the Soviet spacecraft “Soyuz-36” with Kubasov on May 26 and returned to Earth on June 3, 1980. During the week of working at Salyut-6 station, Farkash conducted a dozen scientific and health experiments, including the use of Hungary equipment and equipment. After that flight, he became a hero of the People's Republic of Hungary and the hero of the Soviet Union, received the title of Major General of the Air Force.