Interested in a 500-day Trip to Mars?

Posted by Mike Richard on June 21, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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… or at least the closest thing to it? USA Today is reporting:

Space enthusiasts interested in tagging along on a 520-day roundtrip journey to Mars—a simulated one, that is—should apply now.

The European Space Agency is calling for volunteers to participate in Mars500, a nearly two-year-long simulation of a journey to the Red Planet, the organization announced in a recent statement. The goal of the experiment is to prepare “for future human exploration missions to Mars.”

Sweet!

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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