Simulated Mars mission 'lands' back on Earth

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Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged from isolation.

The Mars500 project, undertaken at a Moscow institute, was intended to find out how the human mind and body would cope on a long-duration spaceflight.Article continues here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15574646)

Last updated: 4 November 2011 at 13:12 GMT

[Torplexed]

Now, throw in a year-and-a-half of weightlessness and the danger of something going seriously wrong with the simulated spacecraft and you're got a real test. ;)

[TLAM Strike]

Didn't they already do this up on Mir? :hmmm: