June 22, 2007
Mars, bitches!
Wanna play spaceman?
The European Space Agency is looking for people who would like to go on a pretend trip to Mars — for about a year and a half.
The 520-day experiment involves a crew of six living in sealed modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
Promising a program "as close to a real Mars mission as possible," the space agency plans to simulate a 250-day trip to Mars, 30 days to experience the planet and 240 days to make it back home.
Weightlessness and radiation are not included, but the simulated out-of-planet experience offers isolation, confinement, crowding, lack of privacy, high workload, boredom with available food, and limited communication with family, friends and mission control.
Doesn't sound any worse than a cubefarm.
Posted by mayor mcsleaze at June 22, 2007 04:55 PM
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