Mars500 ESA
- 14 years ago
The European Space Agency experiment, called Mars500, is designed to test how humans would cope during a 520–day mission to the Red Planet, with a 250–day outward trip, a 30–day stay on its surface, and a 240–day return flight.
During nearly two years of isolation, the crew members – three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian – will experience many of the conditions likely to be encountered by astronauts on a real space flight, except for radiation and weightlessness.
A 20–minute delay will be built into communications with the control centre to simulate an interplanetary mission and the crew will be given an identical diet to that used for the International Space Station
The Mars500 project, which is located in Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems, conducted a simulation last year for 105 days.
The ESA said astronauts taking parts in the experiments would go down in history as pioneers.
"Courtesy : ESA/Cluster" www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars500/SEM7W9XX3RF_0.html
During nearly two years of isolation, the crew members – three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian – will experience many of the conditions likely to be encountered by astronauts on a real space flight, except for radiation and weightlessness.
A 20–minute delay will be built into communications with the control centre to simulate an interplanetary mission and the crew will be given an identical diet to that used for the International Space Station
The Mars500 project, which is located in Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems, conducted a simulation last year for 105 days.
The ESA said astronauts taking parts in the experiments would go down in history as pioneers.
"Courtesy : ESA/Cluster" www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars500/SEM7W9XX3RF_0.html