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Moscow (UPI) Feb 12, 2011 A crew of astronauts successfully simulated a landing on Mars inside a large hangar in Moscow, officials said. The six-person, multinational crew made the simulated Mars landing Saturday after being sealed in a spaceship mockup since June, RIA Novosti reported. "The stimulated touchdown was successfully completed at noon Moscow time," said a spokesman for Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems, which runs the project with the European Space Agency. Three astronauts on the Mars500 simulated mission will make a simulated walk on the Mars "surface" Monday. After working 30 days on the simulated planet, the crew will then embark on a simulated 240-day return trip to Earth. Officials said the 520-day Mars500 mission is designed to test how humans cope with the physical and mental stresses of a long space flight.
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Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red PlanetBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2011 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at the Moscow Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) and begin a simulated exploration of Mars. Their eight-month return journey will commence in early March. "The 11 German experiments carried out so f ... read more |
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