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Will the Mars500 mission surface landings succeed?

Will the Mars500 mission surface landings succeed?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Science » Space
Settled on 03/02/2011 22:37 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:s Six volunteers have hunkered down inside a glorified trailer, stowed inside a Moscow research institute, for the final leg of their simulated 520-day space mission after bidding farewell to the room they pretended was Mars.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/01/6163350-farewell-to-a-make-believe-mars
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars500/SEMGX9U889G_0.html

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Yes
Yes
No
No

Background

A six-man crew on a virtual 500-day trip to Mars reached "orbit" around the Red Planet yesterday after 244 days of fake interplanetary travel. The crew is scheduled to "land" on Feb. 12, and will make three trips out onto simulated Martian terrain.

Three of the crew members — Alexandr Smoleevskiy, Diego Urbina and Wang Yue — will enter the "lander" scheduled to reach the mock Mars on Feb. 12. The three trips onto the simulated terrain take place between Feb. 14 and 22. The crew will then head back to the mother ship on Feb. 23. The long journey home begins on Feb. 28, and the crew escapes their mock world in early November.

To settle "Yes", the three simulated landings must all be completed as planned and the home journey begins as planned on February 28.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/03/5983759-astronauts-reach-fake-mars-orbit
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/SEMGX9U889G_0.html

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   Super Userkruijs

A crew of astronauts successfully simulated a landing on Mars inside a large hangar in Moscow, officials said.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/02/12/Astronauts-simulate-Mars-landing/UPI-95521297526223/#ixzz1DlzvwNui

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