Six volunteers were locked out last workweek in Moscow as part of the Mars500 project , a 520 - day closing off simulation that will screen what it would be like to spend more than a year traveling between the Earth and Mars .
We’vepreviously discussedjust what scientist at the European Space Agency are hope to learn from the experiment . We ’ll check back in on Mars500 a scrap later when data has started to emerge , but for now here ’s Ralf Heckel of Germany ’s International Space Institute and Pavel Sharov ( in an oh - so - fashionable inglorious T - shirt ensemble ) of the Russian organization Novosti Kosmonavtiki explaining what this is all about .
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