Penza, 19 September 2011. PenzaNews. The first press conference after return to the Earth of crewmen of the ISS Alexander Samokutjaev and Andrey Borisenko took place in Star City near Moscow on Monday, September, 19th. Cosmonauts told journalists about their trip to circumterrestrial orbit where Russians worked almost half a year.

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Practically at the end of this term the return of the crew was under threat. Wreck of the carrier rocket "Souz" with the cargo ship "Progress" made experts hold many checks of all systems to find the reason of malfunctions.

The cosmonaut from the Penza region Alexander Samokutjaev said that techniques loss is always a blow for professionals.

The cosmonaut said in the interview to the channel "Russia-24": "Certainly, we worried. We understood that it can cause certain difficulties in advancement of our piloted program and carrying out experiments".

The head of FGBU "NII CPK named after U.A. Gagarin" Sergey Krikalev added that the program of flights was formed such that one ship which didn't come, should not influence the program. In particular, there were extra stocks of food and water at the station.