NASA offers KazCosmos to participate in research projects

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KazCosmos, the national space agency of Kazakhstan - will have joint projects with NASA, Tengrinews reports citing the press-service of the agency.Representatives of KazCosmos met with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on March 12, 2014. Sean Fuller, Director of NASA’s Human Space Flight Program in Russia, represented the American organisation.At the meeting the NASA representative offered Kazakhstan to participate in research projects that are being conducted at the International Space Station (ISS), including the study of effects on body and mind of human spaceflights, remote sensing of the Earth and other projects of mutual interest.They also discussed the possibility of a working visit of a KasCosmos delegation to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), located in Houston, Texas, to study NASA operations and develop a more specific approach to the cooperation.