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kraznyi_oktjabr

11-04-11 05:14 PM

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.

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Last updated: 4 November 2011 at 13:12 GMT

Torplexed

11-04-11 07:36 PM

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

11-04-11 08:59 PM

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

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