ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration
ESA / Elena Tokmantseva
Hatch closed! 18-month Mars500 mission has begun
3 Jun 2010, 10:00 UTC
ESA / Elena Tokmantseva
Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their ‘spacecraft’ and the hatch was closed. The experiment will end in November 2011.
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