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Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 17-months-seems-fair-to-me dept.

number6x writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars. The simulation will put a crew of six in isolation for 17 months. The crew will be made up of 4 Russians and 2 Europeans. In all the ESA will need 12 volunteers for back up purposes. Seventeen months was chosen to simulate the time needed for the journey to Mars and back, as well as a 30 day period spent doing experiments on the red planet."

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  1. Re:Will they be allowed to have sex? by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You forgot

    1. Lock up 12 dorks in a confined space for a year and a half.
    2. ???
    3. Profit.

    Maybe because Endemol already proved that 2 is "make a TV show out of it". Ok, I shut up.

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