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June 28, 2013

The Mars500 Expedition: Five Hundred and Twenty Days of Solitude

On June 3, 2010, six men filed through the weedy, Soviet-era campus of the Institute of Biomedical Problems, in Moscow.
They made their way past friends, family, scientists, well-wishers and a bronze-toned, gigantic statue of the astronaut Yuri Gagarin before entering a vaulted hall that contained a mock-up of the type of spacecraft that could one day ferry humans to Mars. The men climbed aboard. Behind them, the hatch sealed shut. They didn’t come out for a year and a half. -- The New Yorker

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 28, 2013 12:01 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Great... but they had gravity, and without it things are a lot tougher.

Posted by: sdfdsfd at June 28, 2013 6:22 PM

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