Sloot thinks this experience proved to be an invaluable lesson in payload and experiment initialization. Schlagheck would agree. He believes that coping with a station timeline as opposed to a shuttle timeline is part of the transition that must take place before the U.S. and Canada start running microgravity experiments on the International Space Station. But for the most part, investigators will have to wait for the return of data by the next Soyuz or shuttle mission to know the results of their experiments. But Schlagheck says that this snag has provided good experience in risk mitigation.
Experimenters can now make provisions in case of cosmic radiation hits in the future.