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Space crew returns after ‘Mars’ mission to nowhere
Friday, November 4, 2011 17:26
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The six-strong crew of the European Space Agency’s most gruelling mission yet will emerge from their capsule on Friday afternoon after an 18-month voyage that went, literally, nowhere.
The would-be spacefarers spent more than 500 days in windowless isolation in a simulated mission to Mars that played out in a complex of chambers at a research centre in Moscow. Once sealed inside the crew’s only contact with the outside world was over the internet and by phone lines that carried a delay of up to 20 minutes to simulate the time it takes for radio signals to pass between Earth and Mars …. Read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk
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