MARS-500

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MARS-500 is a ground-based experiment simulating manned flight to Mars, will start in the fourth quarter of 2008 at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Six volunteers were to be selected internationally. The experiment was slated to last between 520 and 700 days. During this time investigators-volunteers live and work in the special complex, communicating with the outer world only by means of e-mail.

Contents 1 Requirements 2 See also 3 News on the project 4 External Links

[edit] Requirements

1. Age — 25-50 years old.
2. Higher education.
3. Professional requirements:
   • general practitioner having skills of first medical aid
   • physician-investigator having skills of clinical laboratory diagnostics
   • biologist
   • engineer - specialist in life support systems
   • engineer - specialist in computer techniques
   • engineer - specialist in electronics
   • engineer - mechanic
4. Language skills — knowledge of the Russian and English languages at the level providing professional and every day communication.

[edit] See also

• Manned mission to Mars
• Colonization of Mars
• Mars Society

[edit] News on the project

• Inside the Mars-500 'spaceship', BBC News, March 3, 2008
• Russia continues flight simulation experiments for Mars-500, RIA Novosti, April 15, 2008

[edit] External Links

• Information at the official site
• Official ESA call for candidates, issued on June 19, 2007.
• Simulated Trip to Mars Is Planned, by the Washington Post, June 21, 2007.
• "Mars-500" Project Calls For Volunteers, article by Anna Kizilova, August 2006.
• Russia Plans 500-Day Mock Mars Mission, October 11, 2004.