Mars Simulator Crew

摘要

There are plenty of technical problems on the way to Mars: how to avoid excess radiation, maintain food supplies, and generally not die. But the real hazard between here and there is going nuts. That's why this spring, six participants in the European Space Agency and Russia's Institute for Biomedical Problems's Mars 500 program are going to lock themselves in a series of metal tubes in a facility in Moscow for 520 days, roughly the time it should take to travel 100 million miles to Mars, spend 30 days there, and return. Bozhe may, that's a long time without a shower or a window.