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Operations => Aerospace Education => Topic started by: JC004 on June 03, 2010, 02:43:06 PM

Title: Space volunteers taking a 520-day journey into the unknown
Post by: JC004 on June 03, 2010, 02:43:06 PM
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20100603_Space_volunteers_taking_a_520-day_journey_into_the_unknown.html

QuoteRussian scientists plan to shut the hatch Thursday on six men who will attempt to remain cooped up in a fake spaceship for 520 days - about the length of time it would take to get to Mars and back. During this odyssey of isolation, University of Pennsylvania professor David Dinges will be monitoring their sanity.
Title: Re: Space volunteers taking a 520-day journey into the unknown
Post by: MIKE on June 03, 2010, 02:56:10 PM
James Camron had the right idea for the trip to Pandora.

"It doesn't feel like 6 years; more like a fifth of tequila and an ass-kicking."