Half-time for Mars500: Simulated mission to the Red Planet
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 20:12
in Astronomy & Space
The Mars500 mission -- a simulated mission to the Red Planet -- has reached its half-way mark: After a 250-day virtual flight, the crew members recently landed on a virtual Mars and left the isolation container at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in their space suits.