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The expedition "Mars-500" crew reached the Martian orbit. / February 2, 2011 /Virtual spaceship with the crew of project wich simulate the flight to the Red Planet «Mars-500» has reached Martian orbit, thereby start the main aim of the experiment the landing on the planet, told to «Interfax» the press service of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) RAS, in which the experiment takes place. Waking up in the morning on February 1, experiment crew saw on their screens that simulate windows, enlarged image of Mars. This means that they have reached the Martian orbit. Six participants of the experiment, has lived in isolation of 244 days, a few days will have to retrain the engineers and scientists in the longshoremen. Thats because the source explained that the crew will have access to previously closed module that simulates the landing craft. Until now, the module was used as a warehouse. Available in its cargo "marsonavtam will have to allocate to other modules. February 12 «landing on the planet» will make a Russian Alexander Smoleevsky, Italian Diego Urbina and Chinese participants in the experiment Yue Wang. The second triple of the crew (Alex Sitev, Sukhrob Kamolov and Charles Roman) will be waiting for colleagues in orbit. |
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