Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 8

500. BIG BROTHER IN A SPACE SIMULATOR.

Image from European Space Agency


Mars 500 is a collaboration of the European Space Agency (ESA ), the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) and the U.S. National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
The project studies the physical and psychological consequences that have a human crew on a mission to Mars, a simulator almost real, except gravity.
During a trip to Mars, which could take 20 years to be feasible, crew would remain for over a year on board the ship and travel the last period of communication with Earth would have gaps of 20 minutes.
The experiment takes place in Moscow, in a facility built during the 70's for similar experiments at the time that have been upgraded technologically, but keep the aesthetics of the Soviet space era.
Six astronauts, four Russians, a German and a Frenchman will be enclosed in the first simulator 105 and 520 days later to see how they affect the human race long periods of isolation.
will be supervised by a technical team supporting facilities. Here below I leave a couple of pictures and links for you to take a look at the house GH space.

image NY Times article



Mars 500 facilities in the ESA website


found in News Life Without Buildings

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