First Two Crew Chosen to Be Locked in a Can for Mars500 Mission Test

Just how grueling will a trip to Mars be? To find out, six people are going to spend 18 months in a steel capsule somewhere in Russia, with no way in or out and a 20-minute delay in all communications with the outside world. The first two ground-based "cosmonauts" have now been selected for the big
Mars500 experiment, Romain Charles, a Frenchman, and Diego Urbina, a Colombian-Italian.

The longevity test will determine how easily a 500-day mission to Mars might work out from the human...