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Russia conducts first experiment in preparation for Mars-500
MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian scientists have completed the first stage of preparations for an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical research institute announced on Thursday.
The purpose of the main experiment, expected to begin in late 2008, is to simulate a space flight to Mars taking into account all ramifications, including a 250-day "trip" to the Red Planet, a 30-day period on its surface, and a 240-day return flight.
"A crew comprising five men and one woman tested ground modules and systems in order to assess their readiness for more lengthy and realistic experiments in the future, as part of the Mars-500 project," said a spokesperson for the Russian Institute of Biological Problems, which runs the experiment.
The first test, whose participants were all Russians, was conducted on November 15-29 in life-support and medical modules at the institute's research facility.
"During the experiment, the crewmembers lived and worked in two fully isolated modules. They tested newly-designed equipment and tools used for life support, control, and communications," the spokesperson said.
Two Europeans and four Russians have been selected for the main "flight" simulation, which may last from 520 to 700 days.
During their nearly two-year isolation, crewmembers will experience many of the conditions likely to be encountered by astronauts on a real space flight.
They will adhere to a strict daily regime of work, rest and exercise, and exactly follow the diet of crews aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The Russian scientists will conduct a second preliminary 105-day experiment in the first half of 2008.
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Russia's Mock Mars Mission to Cost $15 Million
By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 7 January 2008
4:12 p.m. ETAn experiment to simulate the stresses of a manned mission to Mars on humans could cost more than $15 million, according to Russian wire reports.
The estimate comes after a two-week test run using a mock-Mars habitat built at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Problems for the Russian Academy of Sciences, the country's Interfax News Agency reported Sunday. The habitat serves as the core of Russia's "Mars500" long-duration spaceflight experiment to begin in late 2008 or early 2009.
"This includes the modernization of the existing equipment, remuneration to participants in the experiment and other expenditures," Interfax quoted Viktor Baranov, Mars500 supervisor and first deputy director at the institute, as saying. "If there are additional expenditures, the total cost of the project will grow."
Russia's Mars500 project is expected to seal six people in a series of furnished metal tubes for up to 520 days, the length of time required for a crewed expedition to Mars and back. The European Space Agency (ESA) is working with Russia on the project and launched its own search for Mars-minded volunteers last year.
"We have an agreement with the ESA that remuneration paid to Russian and European participants should be the same," Baranov told Interfax, adding that qualified volunteers would be eligible for 50,000 Euros (1.8 million Rubles or US$73,467) for their time sequestered.
The four-module mock Mars habitat contains about 1,250 square feet (116 square meters) of living space, or about the equivalent of a two-story house.
It is split into separate medical and living modules, a descent module for landing on Mars and a storage room, ESA officials have said. The long-duration experiment is expected to simulate the 40-minute delay in communications between Earth and Mars, feature mock explorations of the martian surface and recreate the view of Earth dwindling away into space as the "spacecraft" heads toward the red planet, they added.
Russian researchers ran a 14-day test run in November to seek out any pitfalls with their current design, which allowed project managers to set the new cost estimate, Baranov told Interfax.
Last June, the ESA announced a call for 12 volunteers to join its portion of the Mars500 project, though eligible applicants must pass psychological and stress tests to be considered. The applicants would be split into three teams, each with four people, to serve on two, 105-day test runs in the Mars habitat and the final 520-day expedition, ESA officials have said.
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What a waste of time and money!
We know how to select people to undertake this sort of task in cramped conditions. We know from ISS and other missions (including missions on earth) that they can survive the restrictions of this sort of existence.
INstead of pouring money into this waste of effort we should be investing in ISRU development so people can stay a lot longer than 30 days. Hardly worth the effort of getting there is yuo are only going to stay a month.
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The Russian's don't have that much money to waste, their space program is very pragmatic and very underfunded. Crew selection and environment is critical for a successful mission, the cost of getting it right is tiny compared with everything else. Every ruble spent on this will pay back hundreds.
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MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) - The European Space Agency has sent to the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems the resumes of about 40 volunteers wishing to join an experiment of simulating a space flight to Mars on the ground.
"Some 80 people came first, and about 10 of them passed the initial screening. After additional telephone interviews we chose some 40 persons. Their resumes with medical data were submitted to the institute," ESA representative with the institute Elena Feichtinger told Interfax on Tuesday.
She added that in mid-May ESA officials and Russian doctors will select eight to ten people in Cologne. At the final stage, the volunteers will undergo medical examination and training as part of a mixed Russian-European crew in Moscow.
She said that the main 520-day experiment the same as the preliminary 105-day study will involve four Russian candidates and two Europeans. The other European candidates will join the standby crew
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ESA ends cooperation with Russia on three lunar missions
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovat … mars-space
Mars 500 Third mission
Romain Charles, 31-year-old French engineer
Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov (Сухроб Рустамович Камолов), Russian surgeon
Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev (Алексей Сергеевич Ситёв), Russian engineer and commander of the mission
Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy (Александр Егорович Смолеевский), Russian physiologist
Diego Urbina, 27-year-old Italian-Colombian engineer
Wang Yue (王跃), 27-year-old Chinese instructor at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center
The other member of the crew, a replacement, was Mikhail Sinelnikov (Михаил Олегович Синельников), a 37-year-old Russian engineer. The mission started on 3 June 2010 and concluded on 4 November 2011, whereupon the participants entered a four-day quarantine before leaving the facility
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15574646
The crew prepared surprises for birthdays, major state holidays, and informal holidays (on 31 October, they celebrated Halloween). Some crew members increased the time spent on individual activities, which did not hamper communication or interaction. No language, social, or cultural barriers were observed, and the mission commander exercised his authority as both a formal and informal leader.
Later in the experiment, the crew spent more time in bed or engaged in personal activity. The crew's overall activity levels plummeted in the first three months, and continued to fall for the next year. On their return journey, they spent 700 hours more in bed than on the outward journey. Four of the members suffered from sleep and psychological issues. One crew member slept very badly, suffered chronic sleep deprivation, and accounted for the majority of mistakes made on a computer test used to measure concentration and alertness
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 … spaced-out
Revive ESA’s ExoMars mission?
“It was not an easy decision,” Josef Aschbacher, director general of ESA, said during a panel of space agency leaders at the 37th Space Symposium April 6. Scientists and engineers had worked for years on the mission and the rover now is nearly complete. At the time of the decision to suspend work with Russia, it being prepared to ship to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
He thanked NASA for contacting ESA and offering assistance on ExoMars, adding in a later interview that discussions between the agencies are continuing. “Our teams are working with the teams in NASA about the technical steps that need to be done,” he said.
The agencies are looking at options for replacing the Russian elements of ExoMars, such as the launch vehicle and landing platform. Other components that Russia was providing were radioisotope heating units to keep the rover warm at night, a technology commonly used by NASA but which for ESA is much less mature.
Another option ESA is pursuing is to replace Russian components with European ones. Aschbacher said studies are ongoing on technical and financial aspects of both strategies, which should be completed by June. “By July, I expect to have a decision from my member states,” he said, which would become part of the package for ESA’s ministerial meeting late this year.
ESA is also studying options for launching missions that were to fly on Soyuz rockets from French Guiana that were stranded by Russia’s decision in February to halt such launches. Those missions include two pairs of Galileo navigation satellites, two ESA science missions and a French reconnaissance satellite.
https://spacenews.com/esa-continues-tal … operation/
Talks with NASA on ExoMars cooperation
European Space Agency formally ends lunar cooperation with Russia
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