The simulated spacecraft in which six volunteers from Russia, China and Italy performed a simulated flight to Mars in The project "Mars 500" is approaching the Martian orbit. As scheduled, the ship starts circling the red planet's orbit in 247. Th day of flight, ie, on 4 February.
The spacecraft remains in orbit around Mars for a week, then the crew will be divided into two groups. The ship's commander, Russian Alexander Sítev, along with the ship's doctor, fellow and Komólov Sujrob Ramain French engineer Charles, will stay on the ship, while Alexander Smoleevski Russian, Italian, Colombian-born Diego Urbina and Yue Wang Chinese will move in the special module on Feb. 12 held on marcianizaje.
The "pioneers" made three landings on the Red Planet's surface, simulated in another room next to the "ship." First, Urbina Smoleevski and trample on February 14, the red soil, in the second spacewalk on 18 February to finally replace him Wang Yue, and the third cosmic trip will also take the Russian and Italian.
Cosmonauts equipped with diving suits "Orlan E", carried out studies of Martian soil with special instruments developed for the Russian program of piloted exploration of the Moon, and with the help of a robot which several days ago has been tested at the Institute of Medico-Biological Problems.
Mars Project 500 (Mars 500, in English), held at the Institute of Medico-Biological Problems of the Academy of Sciences of Russia, consists of three stages: a flight Virtual Earth to Mars (started on June 3, 2010), stay in the orbit and landing on the red planet's surface and back.
During the isolation period of 520 days, the crew carried out 105 scientific experiments developed by all parties involved in the project. In particular, are scheduled several Chinese experiments devoted to physiological evaluation of the effect of a flight lasting impact on the health of passengers (in which they apply methods of traditional Chinese medicine). As said Russian institute's director, Igor Ushakov, the results of these studies may be useful for medical practice.
the Mars 500 project objective is to acquire practical experience to prepare for actual flight flown to Mars. Scientific studies carried out under the project, aimed at assessing the impact of isolation, the enclosed space and prolonged stress on psychological and physiological aspects of the lives of seafarers, such as group interaction, sleep, the mood, immunity and the effectiveness of the diet.
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