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In Russia they are starting an 18-month total isolation experiment to see how a 6-man crew will handle a simulated mission to Mars:
Mars500 – An 18-month complete-isolation simulated Mars mission is about to begin
But the reality is that a real manned mission to Mars would be astronomically expensive and is not likely to happen anytime soon. A robotic sample return mission to Mars is a more likely first step, as described here…
The Mars500 project is about to start its next phase. They will be simulating a complete 18-month mission to Mars here on earth, complete with a simulated 250-day flight to Mars, 30 days on the Martian surface and a 240-day return trip. The crew of six will be totally isolated in a simulator for the entire time. You can see what the simulator looks like between this illustration and this video…
Obama will announce a new NASA plan tomorrow (thursday, 4/15)
by Marshall Brain | April 14, 2010
Last week we discussed rumors that the massive NASA cuts announced by the White House in February might be reversed: Could there be a compromise for NASA that keeps Americans in space? These cuts were going to basically gut NASA’s manned space flight capability, and were also going to eliminate a huge number of jobs [...]
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