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Volunteers for simulated flight to Mars complete survival training
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-12 19:08
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MOSCOW - Russian and European volunteers for a simulated flight to Mars have finished a two-day survival training, said a spokesman for Russia's Biomedical Problems Institute on Friday.
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Survival in the wild is prerequisite for astronauts when they returned to Earth boarding space capsules. Before flying to the International Space Station, space crew members also need to undergo similar training.
These volunteers should "kindle a bonfire and to build an improvised shelter for the night. 'Rescuers' will spot them the next day and the volunteers will have to walk a long way to where the helicopter will land," said Morgunov as quoted by the Interfax news agency.
The Mars-500 simulated flight to Mars, jointly conducted by institutions such as Russian Federal Space Agency, Russian Academy of Science and European Space Agency, is a three-stage experiment including a 240-day virtual flight to Mars, a 30-day stay on the planet and a 240-day journey back to earth.
