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Mars500 experiment facility in Moscow

author: ESA/S.Corvaja/Novapix

reference: e-exm90-00011

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 19 cm

Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started on june 3 2010 when the six-man crew entered their ‘spacecraft’ and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November 2011. Diego Urbina and Romain Charles from Europe, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and Wang Yue from China face a mission that is as close as possible to a real space voyage without leaving the ground. During 520 days, they will live and work like astronauts, eat special food and exercise in the same way as crews aboard the International Space Station.

Keywords for this photo:

2010 - ASTRONAUT - HUMAN - MAN - MARS - MARS500 - MARTIAN BASE - SIMULATION - SPACE -