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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 15 > Going to Mars, but close to home

Going to Mars, but close to home

Flight simulation experiment ends in Moscow

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 15, 2009

MOSCOW — Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch beaming and waving Tuesday after 105 days of isolation in a Soviet-era mock spacecraft testing the stresses space travelers may one day face on the journey to Mars.

Sergei Ryazansky, the captain of....

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