Mars may soon have travelers from earth

Full Story / Photo: Mail Online 1 November 2011

Mars' Likely Travelers

Mars - the Red Planet may soon have traveling visitors from earth. Six astronauts are being prepared for a possible mission to Mars. Presently these six are undergoing a 520 days simulated mission in a windowless capsule. 

These astronauts are likely to "return home" Friday from their spacecraft - an isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (RIBP) in Moscow as being headlined around the world.

One of the astronauts on board, French engineer Romain Charles, said in a recent diary entry:

'Our international crew went through the Mars500 mission successfully and we're happy and proud to answer positively to the question asked a year-and-a-half ago: 'Is man able to endure, physiologically and psychologically, the confinement of a trip to Mars?' Yes, we're ready to go!'

Watch the video below of astronauts' activities / training at RIBP:

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