Landing on simulated Mars
Landing on simulated Mars
'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at the Moscow Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) and begin a simulated exploration of Mars. Their eight-month return journey to Earth will commence in early March. Their simulated journey to Mars started on 3 June 2010, as the hatch behind them closed, marking the start of the longest ever space simulation experiment.
