How easy it is to forget about the international team of Claustrophobics Anonymous which has been living in a can near Moscow for 6 months already on a pretend mission to Mars. But they are approaching “landing”:
The six men are due to "land" on Mars on Feb. 12 and spend two days researching the planet. They then begin the months-long return flight to Earth, expected to be the most challenging part of the mission.
How do you explore Mars for two days? I’m glad you asked:
In an effort to reproduce the conditions of space travel, with exception of weightlessness, the crew has living quarters the size of a bus connected with several other modules for experiments and exercise. A separate built-in imitator of the Red Planet's surface is attached for the mock landing.
Well, two days may well be enough after all.
Does this project have its own website? Indeed it does, although for me it loads at about 1979 internet speeds, but hey, it is Russia. It would also appear that wood veneer is very popular in Russian Mars spaceships, from the one photo I can see. There is also a link to a blog that seems to only be in Russian. But it does contain a photo of the simulated Mars surface. Yes, I think they will cover all the sights well within 2 days. I hope they are not disappointed.
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