"We are only performers. The customers are a team of researchers on the Earth. Our goal is to create the required conditions in the station. We will take along capsules, arrange them, mix the specimens and see what will come next. Maintaining the temperature regime is a must", Sharipov said.
Creating an anti-AIDS vaccine is not our goal, he stressed.
"Results of our experiment will surface much later on the Earth, not in orbit", he said.
In turn, first cosmonaut of the Russian Space Troops Yuri Shargin told the press conference that he is not going to hold specific military experiments in the ISS.
"Like by fellow-crewmen I will carry out scientific experiments, study the Earth surface and biological reserves of the world ocean, do medical research work. It will be a reduced programme because I will stay in the ISS for only ten days", he added.
Salizhan Sharipov said: "The International Space Station is purely civilian and any military experiment on its board is out".
The new crew will make two spacewalks, he said.
The relief crew, which includes American astronaut Leroy Ciao, will go to the ISS on a six-month expedition on October 11.
Asked what personals the crewmen are going to take along, Sharipov said: "Only 1.8 kilogrammes of personals are allowed. I will take my family pictures, music discs and the emblem of my native city Bishkek".
Astronaut Leroy Ciao will take his family photo and the wedding ring with him.
Alongside private photos Shargin will take to the ISS the Space Troops streamer, little flags of Russia and Moscow.
