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European Mars500 participants announced
The final four Europeans who are set to take part in a 105-day simulated Mars mission were presented to the media in Paris today. From March next year, two of the group will join four Russian participants inside an isolation facility in Moscow.
A selection process which started with 5600 applicants has now been finalised with the presentation today of the final four participants at ESAs Headquarters in Paris, France.

"These four men are highly motivated individuals. Of course they are adventurous and also very ambitious, but not overly competitive. They have shown themselves to be good team players, which also makes them ideal participants for the study" - Jennifer Ngo-Anh, ESA's Mars500 Programme Manager.

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March 2009 will see two European participants entering a set of modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Together with four Russian participants, they will be sealed inside these isolation chambers for 105 days.
This joint ESA IBMP campaign is a preparatory study leading up to the 520-day isolation study in the form of a full-fledged simulation of a mission to Mars that is due to start end-2009.
As with a real space mission, the two European participants will have European backups. The backups (three in this case) will go through the same training and preparation and will be able to step in at the last moment if need be. In addition, they will have tasks to carry out in the mission control centre over the 105 days.

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The crew selection for a simulated Mars mission moved a step closer to completion recently with ESA's last eight candidates being put through extensive medical screening in Moscow. Two of the European candidates will be chosen to join four Russian crew members on a 105-day study due to start in March next year.
 For 105 days, as part of a cooperative project between ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight and the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP), the six-strong crew will live, eat, sleep and work in a specially designed and recently refurbished facility in Moscow.  

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Many of the issues that astronauts would face on the moon or Mars are being studied in Antarctica including how to manage diet, medical care, psychological problems and sex.

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Russian scientists have completed the first stage of preparations for an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical research institute announced on Thursday.

"A crew comprising five men and one woman tested ground modules and systems in order to assess their readiness for more lengthy and realistic experiments in the future, as part of the Mars-500 project. During the experiment, the crewmembers lived and worked in two fully isolated modules. They tested newly-designed equipment and tools used for life support, control, and communications" - spokesperson for the Russian Institute of Biological Problems, which runs the experiment.

The first test, whose participants were all Russians, was conducted on November 15-29 in life-support and medical modules at the institute's research facility.
Two Europeans and four Russians have been selected for the main "flight" simulation, which may last from 520 to 700 days.
During their nearly two-year isolation, crewmembers will experience many of the conditions likely to be encountered by astronauts on a real space flight.
They will adhere to a strict daily regime of work, rest and exercise, and exactly follow the diet of crews aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The Russian scientists will conduct a second preliminary 105-day experiment in the first half of 2008.

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The project, called Mars-500, due to start in 2008 will recreate all the phases of a mission to Mars. Six volunteers will remain confined in six modules of a mock-up ground-based spaceship: living quarters with individual cabins, an exercise room and storage area for food and supplies, a bio-medical and laboratory area and one recreating the Martian surface.

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Seven student crew members just completed a 101-day simulated trip to Mars, designed to help prepare for future space exploration.
The Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station crew left Devon Island in the high Canadian Arctic this week and announced that they had successfully completed all of their missions. Seven science and engineering students -- four Canadians and three Americans, -- completed what is being described as the longest simulated Mars mission.

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The Mars Societys 100-day simulation of an expedition to the Red Planet is wrapping up in the Canadian Arctic - and although some have scoffed at the exercise as little more than grown-ups "pretending to be space explorers," a prominent NASA researcher who participated in the effort says the crew has done groundbreaking research.

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 NASA Ames Research Centre will show a live videoconference from a crater in the Canadian Arctic on Friday, July 20, 2007, featuring a panel of NASA researchers conducting experiments there.
NASA research underway in the crater includes using a pair of four-wheeled rovers to learn how robots could help researchers evaluate locations on the moon as potential sites for lunar bases. NASA is planning to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020. Prior to establishing a lunar outpost, NASA must survey many locations to produce maps, look for minerals and water and learn other details about the sites, scientists say.

The robots, "K10 Black" and "K10 Red," carry 3-D laser scanners and ground-penetrating radar. The robots began operating in Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Canada, this month and will continue working until July 31. Another of many experiments includes a stranded-astronaut lunar simulation test to examine the physiological effects if someone has to hike back to a lunar base following an equipment breakdown.

WHAT: A live satellite videoconferencing opportunity to question NASA scientists conducting research in Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Canada. Reporters also may interview NASA engineers in the NASA Ames Exploration Centre.

WHEN: The media opportunity to question scientists and engineers from Ames will take place 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. PDT July 20, 2007.

WHO: A four-member panel in the Arctic will include: S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, who will discuss lunar exploration; Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames who will discuss the value of analogue site testing; Matt Deans, field director of the Haughton Crater K10 Robot Site Survey who will describe the robots and the survey; and Pascal Lee, a scientist from the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, principal investigator of the Haughton Mars Project. In addition, Ames' Maria Bualat, an engineer with the Intelligent Robotics Group, will make a short presentation in Ames' Exploration Centre about robotics and will be available for interviews.

WHERE: The NASA Ames Exploration Centre, located near the NASA Ames main gate at Moffett Field. To reach Ames, take U.S. Highway 101 to the Moffett Field, NASA Parkway exit and drive east on Moffett Blvd. towards the main gate and bear right into the parking lot. The Exploration Centre is located in the large white dome.

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