Pingie: HTTP:: ESA Looking for 039 Mars 500 039 Volunteers

HTTP:: ESA Looking for 039 Mars 500 039 Volunteers
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A manned mission to Mars poses more difficulties than simply finding the correct type of engine and hull structure for the spacecraft that will take astronauts there. It is also a journey into the depths of human limits, and at this point mission planners and psychologists are more worried about the human element of the mission than about the space vehicle itself. That is why the European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) plans to conduct the Mars 500 experiment in 2010. The study, which will see six volunteers being locked up in a test facility similar to a possible spacecraft design for a Martian journey, will last 520 days, during which time the “astronauts” will undergo the exact same situations space explorers going to the Red Planet would. They will “fly” in a simulated habitat, where even communications with the exterior will be subjected to the same 20-minute delay that is usually recorded between, for ex!
ample, the Mission Control and the rover Spirit. The long-duration experiment is primarily designed to test the influences of prolonged sequestration in confined spaces on the human mind and body, as well as the psychological and medical influences that being part of only a small community brings forth. In the case of the actual ...
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