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    Mock Mars Mission 'Arrives' at Red Planet

    A 520-day attempt to simulate an entire mission to Mars has hit a major milestone, "arriving" in mock orbit around a mock Red Planet after months of virtual interplanetary flight.The Mars500 mission "spacecraft" — actually a collection of sealed habitats in Moscow — entered a simulated orbit phase around the Red Planet on Tuesday (Feb. 1), according to the European Space Agency. Three of the craft's six crewmembers, all of whom are volunteers, will "land" on Mars on Feb. 12 to make three deployments onto simulated Martian terrain, ESA officials said.Mars500 — a $15 million joint experiment by ESA, Russia and China — aims to study the complex psychological and technical challenges that must be solved for long spaceflights , officials have said. The project has been running for more than eight months in a mock spacecraft at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow."Mars500 is a visionary experiment," Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA's director for human spaceflight, said in a statement. "Eu...

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    2. Scientists begin 520-day Mars mission simulation in Moscow research center

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    3. International team of researchers to spend 520 days in isolation imitating mission to Mars

      MOSCOW (AP) — A manned mission to Mars may be decades away, but an international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themsel...

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