The "Mars 500" experiment has reached its climax: the participants of the simulated space flight landed after 250 days on the Red Planet, now exploring a simulated surface. Researchers are excited, but the toughest test of the crew is still to come.
Russia's Mission Control Center has seen some heroic deed: The Control and Management Centre of the Russian space agency Roskosmos resides in a massive construction in Korolyov, a town 30 miles north of Moscow. Here were Soviet and later Russian radio contact with Moscow's space station Mir. From here they set up today in connection with the ISS, the International Space Station.
Dozens of television crews push their way past the memorial plaques on Monday, reminiscent of Soviet cosmonaut feats: the flight of Sputnik in 1957, the first satellite. Or Yuri Gagarin, the nearly 50 years ago came the first man into space and orbited the Earth in a spaceship.
Today, however, directed the attention of media representatives from around the world not in the sky. It applies only to a few kilometers away, Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) - and the most highly esteemed sandbox experiment in the world.
Greater interest than in real space missions
"So many journalists we have otherwise not even in real space missions," said Mark Bela Kowski of IBMP. Six men rehearse at his institute since the summer for the flight to Mars, three Russians and two Europeans and Chinese. Eight months in complete isolation from the outside world behind them, eight months without sunlight.
Radio messages reach the team's 20-minute delay, as if they really floating thousands of miles away from Earth. 520 days is to take the experiment called "Mars 500", from which Roskosmos and the European Space Agency ESA insights for future manned flights in the interplanetary space hope.
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