A year-and-a-half isolation experiment that had been conducted to simulate a return flight to Mars is about to end very soon.
Mars 500, a 6 million pounds project, will be ending at two ‘o’ clock local time on Friday in the car park of a drab scientific institute in Moscow where it had started.
The six volunteers, who had signed up for the reality show-like project for a cash payment of the equivalent of 64,000 pounds, will finally get to see daylight for the first time in 520 days as the hatch on the men’s mock spaceship will be finally opened.
The idea behind the project was to study the psychological and physical effects of long-haul space flight on human beings in anticipation of a real mission to Mars.
The all-male crew, which comprised of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian, and a Chinese man, agreed to be locked inside a giant wood-panelled tin can in order to simulate a return flight to the Red Planet.
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