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The CBC reports this morning that the European Space Agency is looking for qualified candidates for a simulated manned mission to Mars to be conducted sometime in 2008-2009.
The simulated mission is mostly about testing psychological and physical effects of prolonged spaceflight. The test will run for over 520 days, replicating the planned 250-day trip each way and a 20-day surface mission. Except for simulating zero-gravity and exposure to solar radiation, the ESA hopes to make the simulated mission as close to identical to the "real thing" as possible. They need six volunteers, all of whom have to meet the same basic qualification criteria as the ESA's own astronauts.
I'd sign up, but I plan to be busy playing Spore in 2009, and that will probably keep me busy for 520 days right there.
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