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Recruit volunteers for an experiment on simulation of a manned flight to Mars.
In autumn 2005, will be announced to recruit volunteers for an experiment in modeling a manned flight to Mars. It is planned to select at least 20 people. Six people were part of a group of the "crew" will include six more in the control group to ensure that the experiment from the outside. Were selected for the experiment will be only men.
The participants of both groups will be measured various physiological parameters for comparison. On Tuesday the head of department of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (INBP RAS) Mark Belakovsky at the opening of the conference dedicated to the results of scientific work in the Russian segment of the ISS.
It is planned that the experiment "500 Days" will be held in 2006. Its value may be about 10 million. Dollars. Already, the letters come from those who want to experiment with the United States, Greece, Belgium, Austria. Real also manned mission to Mars could take place in the period between 2018 and 2030.
Belakovsky said that the starting point for the recruitment of volunteers will Congress on space biology and medicine, which will be held in Berlin in September 2005. The congress will discuss the draft of the experiment and considered proposals for its implementation. In addition to the participation of the Russian Space Agency and the Russian Academy of Sciences offered its cooperation colleagues from the European and Canadian space agencies, reports RIA "Novosti".
The participants of both groups will be measured various physiological parameters for comparison. On Tuesday the head of department of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (INBP RAS) Mark Belakovsky at the opening of the conference dedicated to the results of scientific work in the Russian segment of the ISS.
It is planned that the experiment "500 Days" will be held in 2006. Its value may be about 10 million. Dollars. Already, the letters come from those who want to experiment with the United States, Greece, Belgium, Austria. Real also manned mission to Mars could take place in the period between 2018 and 2030.
Belakovsky said that the starting point for the recruitment of volunteers will Congress on space biology and medicine, which will be held in Berlin in September 2005. The congress will discuss the draft of the experiment and considered proposals for its implementation. In addition to the participation of the Russian Space Agency and the Russian Academy of Sciences offered its cooperation colleagues from the European and Canadian space agencies, reports RIA "Novosti".