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June 2, 2010

Mars 500 Update

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Credits: ESA – S. Corvaja

 

 

After a successful simulated Mars mission that lasted for only 150 days, the Mars 500 experiment will go to the next level: the 520-day mission. The hatch of the facility hosted at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow will be sealed again tomorrow, on June 3, 2010.

 

 

There are six crewmembers selected plus a Russian backup: Diego Urbina, Romain Charles, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Mikhail Sinelnikov, and Wang Yue. The crew will live and work for 520 days inside the sealed facility in the same way astronauts live and work on the International Space Station (minus the zero-g environment, of course).

 

You can find more information about the Mars 500 project on the dedicated page on ESA’s website.

 

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