Cave Astronauts Explore Deep Inside Earth to Simulate Spaceflight | European Space Agency & CAVES 2011 | Astronaut Training & Analogs
An international team of five astronauts re-emerged on Sept. 21, 2011, after living in a cave for six days as part of an elaborate training exercise that simulates aspects of a real space mission.
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On Friday (Nov. 4), six volunteer astronauts will "return" to Earth from a mock mission to Mars, after spending 18 months isolated from the world in a special facility in Moscow.
But the Mars500 crewmembers are not the only ones who have faced extreme conditions in simulating a real space mission. An international team of five astronauts recently completed a spaceflight training mission in Europe that required them to live and work in a dark and isolated cave for nearly a week.
The September training mission was organized by the European Space Agency to [...]
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