Opportunity for those who wish to travel to Mars
MIL/Agencies/ESA/UT, Jun 21, 2007.
June 21, 2007 (Thursday) – If you are interested to visit Mars or feel like its conditions practically and physically, you have an opportunity as such. You may not be going to Mars physically, it shall be a simulated voyage? Is shall be exciting and glaring, courageous and bold step to learn an adventurous experience, which a person cannot dream being on the Earth.
If you're interested, ESA is looking for a few volunteers to take part in a series of simulated missions to the Red Planet.
Make sure you've got some spare time, since the longest trip is going to take 520 days.
ESA has teamed up with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems to send a crew of 6 on a 520-day simulated voyage to Mars.
Apart from actually stepping foot on the surface of the Red Planet, the volunteers will eat like astronauts, perform the kinds of activities astronauts will do, and live in close quarters. They'll even perform an exploration phase on a simulated planet Mars.
There will be one or two precursor studies, lasting 105 days, and then the full 520 mission gets going in 2008 or 2009.
If you're interested, you can check out ESA News Service.
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