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Scientists begin 520-day Mars mission simulation (AP)

FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo the team of researchers is greeted after ending a three-month simulation mission to Mars at a Moscow research facility, Russia. Another team of researchers will launch a longer, 520-day simulation of Mars mission at the same facility in Moscow on Thursday June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)AP - An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel.


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