December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...-male, all-female, mixed, married and single, or even established couple crews would work best. The Mars-500 experiment in Moscow at the IBMP provides useful information for crew constituency studies. Six men from a wide international grouping were...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... of a surface mission lasting up to 18 months, Russia, ESA and China conducted ‘The Mars 500’ experiment from 2007 to 2011. This study simulated a 520-day round trip to Mars, where volunteers lived and worked in a mock mission environment, generating...
