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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hemalsilva" data-source="post: 11269614" data-attributes="member: 7335">'We're ready to go - for real!' Astronauts prepared for Mars as they 'return home' after 500 days in windowless capsuleSix astronauts will 'return home' this week after spending 520 days in a windowless capsule on a simulated mission to Mars.They will emerge from their spacecraft - an isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (RIBP) in Moscow - on Friday.But they are already looking forward triumphantly to the ever-realistic possibility of sending man to the Red Planet for real.<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/01/article-2056039-0E9F043C00000578-584_634x474.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Mars500 crew, pictured here in September, will finally emerge from their capsule in Russian on Friday after a 520-day mock mission to Mars.One of the astronauts on board, French engineer Romain Charles, said in a recent diary entry: 'Our international crew went through the Mars500 mission successfully and we're happy and proud to answer positively to the question asked a year-and-a-half ago: 'Is man able to endure, physiologically and psychologically, the confinement of a trip to Mars?' Yes, we're ready to go!'The $15million Mars500 project is being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the RIBP with the aim of imitating a complete mission to Mars.Since the astronauts boarded on June 3 last year, they have undergone experiments, carried out 'Mars Walks' in a car park outside a Moscow block of flats and monitored their own mental health and wellbeing.<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/01/article-2056039-0E9F045800000578-691_634x406.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Hardly a room with a view: The crew's spacecraft is actually an isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow. <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/01/article-2056039-0E9F044800000578-579_634x418.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The astronauts have a meal together, but there were times when a lack of family contact and little variation in food led to mental low points <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/01/article-2056039-0E9F045000000578-585_634x474.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The crew conducted various experiments on themselves to understand the physical and psychological demands of a long space mission. But perhaps importantly, they weren't able to simulate anti-gravity <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/01/article-2056039-0E9F044000000578-330_634x417.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Two of the Mars500 astronauts - Diego Urbina and Alexander Smoleyevsky - emerged from their spacecraft in February to walk on the 'surface' of Mars - a car park in Moscow <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/14/article-1356804-0D2F07AB000005DC-120_634x425.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Journalists at the Korolev Space Mission Control Centre outside Moscow watch Italian Diego Urbina and Russian Alexander Smoleyevsky emerge from their spacecraft <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/14/article-1356804-0D2F0794000005DC-114_634x517.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056039/Mock-Mars-mission-Astronauts-return-home-500-days-windowless-capsule.html" target="_blank">Read more:</a></blockquote>

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