A group of six astronauts, all volunteers of Mars500, have completed their first mock and two of them will now embark on mastering the art of the "Mars walk" (Six volunteers - two from Europe, one from China and three from Russia) - locked themselves inside a set of connected, windowless modules in Moscow.
The Mars500 project is run by Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems with the participation of the European Space Agency (ESA). It aims to investigate some of the physical and physiological effects that humans might encounter on a long-duration spaceflight. This "test drive" will provide valuable data in planning the future and real trip to the red planet of Mars.
A human mission to Mars with current-day propulsion requires only 180 days in transit each way. The Mars500 crew has endured isolation for a period significantly longer than that .The Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems launched the 520-day experiment on June 3 last year.
The men will do a lot of similar work as the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and will participate in more than 620 experiments. The experiment simulates the real time it would take to reach Mars and perform experiments while in total isolation from society. The group will join the Mars fictitiously on Monday as part of a trip lasting a total of a year and a half, simulated for scientific purposes.
Dr Christer Fuglesang an ESA astronaut and the head of the mission is a veteran of two shuttle missions to the International Space Station. He said: "Boredom and monotony - from our point of view what's important is to try to not give them too much or too little to do and then come up with some interesting things to beat the monotony."The main key outlet for the men has been karaoke. Video diaries have showed them venting their boredom through Blur's "Song 2", an often unmelodic version. Their diet has an uninspiring look and it will remain until November when the mission ends. The completion of this stage will see a manned mission to Mars that bit closer, though it's unlikely to see earlier than 2030.
The Mars500 project is run by Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems with the participation of the European Space Agency (ESA). It aims to investigate some of the physical and physiological effects that humans might encounter on a long-duration spaceflight. This "test drive" will provide valuable data in planning the future and real trip to the red planet of Mars.
A human mission to Mars with current-day propulsion requires only 180 days in transit each way. The Mars500 crew has endured isolation for a period significantly longer than that .The Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems launched the 520-day experiment on June 3 last year.
The men will do a lot of similar work as the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and will participate in more than 620 experiments. The experiment simulates the real time it would take to reach Mars and perform experiments while in total isolation from society. The group will join the Mars fictitiously on Monday as part of a trip lasting a total of a year and a half, simulated for scientific purposes.
Dr Christer Fuglesang an ESA astronaut and the head of the mission is a veteran of two shuttle missions to the International Space Station. He said: "Boredom and monotony - from our point of view what's important is to try to not give them too much or too little to do and then come up with some interesting things to beat the monotony."The main key outlet for the men has been karaoke. Video diaries have showed them venting their boredom through Blur's "Song 2", an often unmelodic version. Their diet has an uninspiring look and it will remain until November when the mission ends. The completion of this stage will see a manned mission to Mars that bit closer, though it's unlikely to see earlier than 2030.
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