tiagosilva29 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth.The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real space crews would cope with confinement, daily activities and psychological stress on a lengthy trip to the red planet and back. The all-male crew could only shower once a week, ate canned food and received emails on a delay, depending on how "far away" they are from Earth. Their living quarters are the size of a bus and, outside of a quick stint on mock Mars, they've spent two eight-month periods in total confinement. But Patrik Sundblad, the human life sciences specialist at the ESA, says the simulation has proved a complete success. "Yes, the crew can survive the inevitable isolation that is for a mission to Mars and back," Sundblad stated. "Psychologically, we can do it." (...) Source: Ars Technica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkburn Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Uh, you misquoted it: 520, not 20 days :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam14160 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Cool. Maybe this will open the door to an actual attempt to put someone on Mars over the next say ten years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Uh, you misquoted it: 520, not 20 days :)Fixed, thanks bro'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Well of course people can do it....20 years / 23h a day in a 6x6 cell should have told them that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Cool achievement, good to see some science behind it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deactivated170812 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Well of course people can do it....20 years / 23h a day in a 6x6 cell should have told them that One man, not a group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted November 3, 2011 Administrators Share Posted November 3, 2011 I've seen programs about this on Discovery, it's hard to believe this group has actually been at this for years (excluding the 520 days). I hope their work pays off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted November 3, 2011 Veteran Share Posted November 3, 2011 except for all currently planned (experimental) trips to Mars are going to be a 1 way trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 One man, not a group. Jail only hold one person these days ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalpirate Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Jail only hold one person these days ? one person per cell is not the same as six people in one is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 except for all currently planned (experimental) trips to Mars are going to be a 1 way trip. That was ONE proposal by Scientists Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies. The other proposed missions are two-way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I bet there was a big rush to the pizza shops :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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