Experiment Simulates Radiation Exposure

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The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.

by Staff Writers
UPI Correspondent
State College (UPI) Pa., April 10, 2007
An international team will live in a small shelter in the Utah desert for two weeks this month in a NASA simulation of Martian exploration. The experiment, called Crew 61, is sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Spaceward Bound program and the Mars Society.

The last of the 2006-07 season's missions, the focus of the two weeks will be on emergency preparedness, including simulations and protocol development for extravehicular activity emergencies, radiation poisoning prevention, EVA radiation emergency protocols and an emergency air quantity/location study.

The five crew members from the United States, Peru, Belgium and Spain will live in a two-story, 26.5-foot diameter circular habitat called the Mars Desert Research Station.

"This is a unique mission, the first dedicated to emergency preparedness," said Irene Schneider Puente, a Penn State graduate student in geosciences and a study participant. Schneider will monitor three hypothetical different radiation warning systems during the mission.

Schneider, a native of Madrid, will also serve as the crew physicist, responsible for all Spanish communications and for writing the science mission reports.

Source: United Press International

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ESA Prepares For A Human Mission To Mars

Paris, France (ESA) Apr 03, 2007
Starting in spring next year, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia. To investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration mission, such as to Mars, ESA is looking for experiment proposals for research to be carried out during their stay.

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