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Mars-500: Six volunteers spend 520 days in isolation

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The Mars-500 experiment will be over on November 4. The participants spent almost 18 months in an environment simulating space flight. Six volunteers - researcher Alexander Smoleyevsky, flight engineer Roman Charles, crew commander Alexei Sitev, medical doctor Sukhrob Kamolov, and researchers Diego Urbina and Wang Yueh, were isolated from the outside world in a specially designed complex simulating a spaceship.

The Mars-500 experiment will be over on November 4. The participants spent almost 18 months in an environment simulating space flight. Six volunteers - researcher Alexander Smoleyevsky, flight engineer Roman Charles, crew commander Alexei Sitev, medical doctor Sukhrob Kamolov, and researchers Diego Urbina and Wang Yueh, were isolated from the outside world in a specially designed complex simulating a spaceship.

© RIA Novosti . Alexei Kudenko / Go to the mediabankThe Mars-500 experiment will be over on November 4. The participants spent almost 18 months in an environment simulating space flight. Six volunteers - researcher Alexander Smoleyevsky, flight engineer Roman Charles, crew commander Alexei Sitev, medical doctor Sukhrob Kamolov, and researchers Diego Urbina and Wang Yueh, were isolated from the outside world in a specially designed complex simulating a spaceship.
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The Mars-500 experiment will be over on November 4. The participants spent almost 18 months in an environment simulating space flight. Six volunteers - researcher Alexander Smoleyevsky, flight engineer Roman Charles, crew commander Alexei Sitev, medical doctor Sukhrob Kamolov, and researchers Diego Urbina and Wang Yueh, were isolated from the outside world in a specially designed complex simulating a spaceship.
© RIA Novosti . Alexei Kudenko / Go to the mediabankMars-500 started out in June 2010 when its participants shut the hatches of the ground-based simulator, not to open them until 520 days later. The experiment included a 250-day “flight from Earth to Mars,” a stay on the surface and a 240-day return flight.
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Mars-500 started out in June 2010 when its participants shut the hatches of the ground-based simulator, not to open them until 520 days later. The experiment included a 250-day “flight from Earth to Mars,” a stay on the surface and a 240-day return flight.
© Photo : IMBPThe participants used their leisure time to play board games, learn Chinese poetry and practice Chinese calligraphy.
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The participants used their leisure time to play board games, learn Chinese poetry and practice Chinese calligraphy.
© Photo : IMBPOne goal of the experiment was to study interethnic relations, the director of the Institute for Biomedical Problems, Igor Ushakov, said. “The Chinese crew member (photo) has a high level of psychological congruence. He quickly blended in with the rest of the crew and started making good progress in learning Russian and improving his knowledge of English. He is very sociable and encourages study of the Chinese language, hieroglyphs and Chinese poetry,” Ushakov told RIA Novosti.
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One goal of the experiment was to study interethnic relations, the director of the Institute for Biomedical Problems, Igor Ushakov, said. “The Chinese crew member (photo) has a high level of psychological congruence. He quickly blended in with the rest of the crew and started making good progress in learning Russian and improving his knowledge of English. He is very sociable and encourages study of the Chinese language, hieroglyphs and Chinese poetry,” Ushakov told RIA Novosti.
© Photo : IMBPThe crew members celebrated New Year 2011with a New Year tree.
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The crew members celebrated New Year 2011with a New Year tree.
© Photo : IMBPIndependence Day onboard the “Mars-bound” simulator was marked with a festive show.
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Independence Day onboard the “Mars-bound” simulator was marked with a festive show.
© Photo : IMBPThey even had a Halloween party during the “flight.”
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They even had a Halloween party during the “flight.”
© Photo : IMBPThe French participant Roman Charles turned 32 on July 12. It was his second birthday party aboard the “flight” to the Red Planet. Roman was allowed to open a gift box from his family, which had been loaded aboard the complex before it headed for Mars.
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The French participant Roman Charles turned 32 on July 12. It was his second birthday party aboard the “flight” to the Red Planet. Roman was allowed to open a gift box from his family, which had been loaded aboard the complex before it headed for Mars.
© Photo : IMBPTwo weeks later, on July 26, Chinese researcher Wang Yueh turned 29. It was also his second birthday aboard the spaceship.
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Two weeks later, on July 26, Chinese researcher Wang Yueh turned 29. It was also his second birthday aboard the spaceship.
© Photo : IMBPThe crew members have conducted 200 scientific tests.
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The crew members have conducted 200 scientific tests.
© Photo : IMBPThey tested everything from equipment that might be installed on real spaceships to bed linen enhanced with silver that has antibacterial properties, says http://www.vesti-moscow.ru.
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They tested everything from equipment that might be installed on real spaceships to bed linen enhanced with silver that has antibacterial properties, says http://www.vesti-moscow.ru.
© Photo : IMBP/ Oleg VoloshinThe lander with three crew members made a virtual landing on the Mars-like surface on February 12, 2011. The “marsonauts” then stepped out onto the surface of Mars on three separate occasions. Upon completion of its “mission to Mars” on February 23, the lander took off and left the planet. On March 2, the researchers set a course for Earth.
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The lander with three crew members made a virtual landing on the Mars-like surface on February 12, 2011. The “marsonauts” then stepped out onto the surface of Mars on three separate occasions. Upon completion of its “mission to Mars” on February 23, the lander took off and left the planet. On March 2, the researchers set a course for Earth.
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