Russians complete 100-day Mars flight imitation
RFC - 14 Jul, 02:48 PM
A team of volunteers have completed a 105-day experiment in Moscow that modeled a anned space flight to Mars, the Russian First Channel report on Tuesday
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All of that time, participants in Mars-500 – four Russians, a Frenchman and a German – were sealed up in a model of an actual spacecraft at the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems.
According to the institute, the main problem for a manned mission to Mars is ensuring the full autonomy of the crew for the year-and-a-half round trip.
The 550-cubic-meter facility was made out of three modules, where each participant had a tiny individual bedroom a maximum of 3.2 square meters in area, minimally furnished.
The experiment is a joint project between the Institute and the European Space Agency (ESA) and will lay the path for an even tougher Mars mission simulation later in 2009.
At the end of the year, the partners are planning to send six more crews into the isolation facility for 520 days – the estimated duration of a return trip to Mars.
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