FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
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by Vladimir Isachenkov
moscow — An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars in- tended to help real space crews of the future cope with the confine- ment, stress and fatigue of inter- planetary travel. The all-male crew of three Rus- sians, a Frenchman, an Italian-
Colombian and a Chinese will fol- low a tight regimen of experi- ments and exercise under video surveillance. The Mars-500 experiment —
conducted by the Moscow-based Institute of Medical and Biologi- cal Problems in cooperation with the European Space Agency and China’s space training center — aims to reproduce the conditions of space travel, with the excep- tion of weightlessness. “For me, it will be mainly my
family, and the sun and fresh air,” French participant Romain Charles said when asked by re- porters what he will miss most during the confinement. The researchers will communi-
cate with the outside world via the Internet — delayed and occa- sionally disrupted to imitate the effects of space travel. They will eat canned food similar to that of- fered on the International Space Station and shower only once a week or so. Crew members will
have two days off a week, except when emergencies are simulated, though they will still be in the capsules. “Certainly, the crew is largely on its own here, with very limited communications with the outside world,” said Martin Zell of the Eu- ropean Space Agency’s Director- ate of Human Spaceflight. “They have to cope internally with a lot of conditions and to organize themselves.”
A real mission to Mars is dec-
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Six researchers to put coping skills to test in 520-day simulation of flight to Mars
ades away because of huge costs and massive technological chal- lenges, particularly the task of creating a compact shield that will protect the crew from deadly space radiation. President Oba- ma said last month that he fore- saw sending astronauts to orbit Mars by the mid-2030s. The crew members said they were confident of success. Diego Urbina, the Italian-Colombian member, told a news conference that for him it would mean “ac-
complishing dreams about the future, doing something that no human has done before.” Psychologists said long con-
finement would put the team un- der stress as they grow increas- ingly tired of each other’s com- pany. Psychological conditions can be even more challenging on a mock mission than a real flight because the crew won’t experi- ence any of the euphoria or dan- gers of actual space travel.
— Associated Press
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