The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ today to be welcomed by the waiting scientists – happy that the venture had worked even better than expected.
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The hatch of the Mars500 facility has been closed since June 2010. It was finally opened on 4 …
The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters home about the highlights, monotonous life, team spirit and determination to go on.
“Wow, it’s already been a year,†begins Diego Urbina, one of the two Mars500 crewmembers from ESA, in his latest diary … Read the rest of this article
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