Mars500 Crew Became Lazy And Sleepy During Moscow-Based Fake Space Mission
The Red Glasses Really Make It Look Like Mars IBMPFirst scientific findings released from the fake mission show that "maintenance of human behavior" was difficult. For a while there, life in a bunker designed to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars looked kind of fun. The "cosmonauts" had video games, fake fireplaces to simulate a Christmasy scene, and an unbelievable sense of patience as they sat through a false journey to the Red Planet and back. But it turns out it was really just incredibly boring. And the word sat is key, because that's about all they did. Space biomedical scientists are publishing the first crop of research papers to stem from the Mars500 mission, which involved the voluntary sequestration of three Russians, a Chinese man, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian man inside a small metal bunker. The 17-month mission, unprecedented on Earth or in space, was designed to measure how...