Posted on 06/29/2006 9:18:27 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Being cooped up on a space mission can do funny things to you - even if it's a make-believe mission. During an extended simulation of a voyage to Mars back in 1999, a bloody fistfight reportedly broke out between two ersatz astronauts, and one woman participant complained of sexual harassment.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens next year, when the Mars Society is due to stage a simulated four-month mission - not within the comfy confines of a laboratory, but amid the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic.
The society's president, Robert Zubrin, confirmed last week's reports that his organization was forgoing its annual simulated mission on Devon Island this year, and concentrating instead on next year's Arctic expedition.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
pff. I could do it alone for 4 years. Sign me up to go to mars.
Should've gone to Venus.
Paging Paulie Shore
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