Friday, November 4, 2011

Researchers complete 520-day mock mission to Mars

Researchers complete 520-day mock mission to Mars

FILE-  In this May 24, 2010 file photo released by Moscow's  Institute for Medical and Biological Problems and made available Wednesday, June 2, 2010, researchers test spacesuits on a simulated Mars surface during a training session at Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. The all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese have stayed at the facility at a Moscow space research center since June 2010 to simulate confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel  minus the weightlessness. They are set to leave their quarters  Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/IBMP, Oleg Voloshin, HO File)

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