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World: Experience 'life on Mars' in cave

Spain's Intraplanetary Space Agency is offering aspiring astronauts the opportunity of experiencing life on Mars, without even leaving Earth. Holiday website TripAdvisor is helping to devise the program that offers thrill-seekers a taste of what it could be like to live in a space station on the hostile red planet. The program involves an entire month of training, culminating in three days and three nights in the depth of a cave within the mountain in Cantabria, northern Spain, isolated from human contact in an environment which closely replicates the conditions of Mars.

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