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After over eight months of training, cosmonauts have now for the first time "walked the surface of Mars". Too good to be true? Yes, kind of. It's the Mars 500 project - a simulated mission with the goal to find out how humans react during long spaceflights.
The experiment is nearing its mid-point. After the volunteers spent more than 200 days simulating the flight to the Red Planet, they have been divided into two groups -- one staying on board a module which is simulating a flight in Martian orbit, and another one sent to land on 'the planet's surface'.
Link - via Nerdcore
Did anyone else catch that one guy's fly unzipped? On the left, ~3:45. Might want to add that to the checklist before the real thing.
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It's a conspiracy. No one really walked on this "Mars" and there are clearly no glowing green plumbobs above those sims. Fake.
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give me a library, a massive collection of games and some dvds. I'd be set for a long time.
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I would be pretty angry if, after 200 days, I stepped out of my "shuttle" and was in a tiny little room that kinda maybe could have been mars if it were built in a closet. At least give them an awesome set; let them have the "wow" factor that the real astronauts would feel.
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