Six would-be astronauts will this week begin a 520-day mock space voyage to simulate a mission to Mars. In a warehouse in Moscow's suburbs an audacious experiment is about to try to replicate the cramped, claustrophobic conditions of a voyage across the Solar System.
The cosmonauts - three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian - will live and work as interplanetary travellers, spending eight hours a day working on maintenance and scientific experiments, eight hours at leisure and eight hours sleeping.
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