MEN FOR MARS

摘要

If six men are crammed into a space capsule for 520 days, will they go crazy? Candidates are now competing to help answer that question.rnThere's no crewed voyage to Mars in the offing, but the joint Russian-European Mars500 project is on track for a simulated year-and-a-half roundtrip to, and a 3-week field trip on, the Red Planet. Six men will enter a capsule this summer at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Nine candidates are currently training in Russia. The final crew, to be announced in May, will comprise three Russians, two Europeans, and either a Chinese or another Russian.