Executive Director for manned programs of Roskosmos Sergey Krikalev expressed regret that over 800 days, which he spent in orbit, it in the window and didn’t knock the aliens.
I regret to say that after more than 800 days in space, nor green, nor red, nor blue creatures to us did not arrive. It’s a shame, — he declared on air “Dialogue on an equal footing” placed youth of the coworking “Easy” “Vkontakte”.
The record for total time spent in space, admitted that it would be “cool to talk to these guys, listen to, learn from them, understand what they are interested”.
Six times Krikalev flew on the Mir and ISS, and eight times out to open space. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Russian Federation.
Wrote NEWS.ru earlier, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has expressed hope to meet the aliens. He stressed that he believes in extraterrestrial intelligence. Artemyev said that for psychological support during the flight to the ISS astronauts get tablets with 60 gigabytes of music. On the screen the astronaut took his first photo from space.
