Feb 14
A fake space crew hit the halfway point on their fake space mission this week, stepping out onto the sands of fake Mars. It’s all part of a very real experiment, in which volunteers from Italy and Russia are spending eight months of their life simulating a voyage to the fourth planet from the sun.
The mission hit its halfway point today, with the volunteers stepping out of their capsule in full space suits, taking their first small steps onto the cold planet located inside a Moscow-based research center.
“We have made great progress today,” Russian Federal Space Agency deputy head Vitaly Davydov said of the mission, adding, “the crew feel fine.”
The whole experiment will take 520 days. The primary goal is to test how the six volunteers will manage isolated for that long. Russia hopes to duplicate the experience on the real Mars by 2040.
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