The purpose of the Mars500 study is to gather data, knowledge and experience to help prepare for a real mission to Mars. Obviously there will be no effect of weightlessness, but the study will help to determine key psychological and physiological effects on people in such an enclosed environment for such an extended 520-day period of time.
The experiment is a joint undertaking between the ESA and the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow.
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That was great for back on the moon days, but you’re most likely not going to see anything like that on a mission to mars. You’re more likely to see something like this.
I had a dream once, that we had sent a manned mission to mars. Live on HD, we watched the mars explorers discover underground alien ruins, with skeletal remains still inside high tech harnesses. The remains were clearly dolphin. It blew everybody’s minds, and an immediate international moratorium was called on dolphin exploitation, since we now knew that they were the feral children of ancient explorers from mars.
Mission to Mars is a movie I want to share with Joel (my son), when he's a little older. It really is a beautiful film, devoid of irony and cynicism. It doesn't say space travel is easy or devoid of dangers, only that it's worth it. I liked it when I saw it several years ago, but I didn't realize, until watching it a second time, how beautiful the film really is.
I read someplace that NASA had planned a manned mission to Mars by August, 1982, but that Viet Nam war was so pricey. Such type of mission could have been a drop inside the fiscal bucket, when compared to military spending back then. When you compare the value of a manned mission to Mars to that of slugging it out in Southeast Asia, I vote Mars, entirely. We lost Viet Nam; what a waste. We lost our early trip to Mars; what a waste. Now, we certainly have global financial woes and budget cuts. Once again, Mars takes the back seat just to fall out of the vehicle. What can we do to prevent strike three?