Mars500: one year inside
This 3 june it will be one year since the Mars 500 experience started: one year since six volunteers are locked inside a sealed nest of modules at Moscow’s Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP).
The isolated crew will stay a total of 520 days, the time it would take to fly to Mars and back, so they are supposed to be inside their fake spaceship until next 5 November.
Mars 500 is the most realistic spaceflight simulation possible without leaving the ground.
This story gives the status on the experiment with words from Romain Charles and Diego Urbina the two European “marsonauts”.
Brilliant to see them all getting along so well after a whole year together. I'm so glad this experiment took place, pshing s a step further to an actual mars mission
All very well trying this long in isolation, but 6 months in a cramped spacecraft with zero gravity that would be a real physiological test!!
If those space suits are heavy, then why not putting a Exoskeletion into that suit.
I know it may be difficult, but the idea is there you know.
We need to test this theory out again and again!