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Flight simulator on Mars has gone halfway. Six astronauts were put into a special room that was supposed to be a spaceship to travel to Mars on their journey - about 520 days.

By the end of this January, the flight simulator was supposed to have arrived and the astronauts were about to set foot on the red planet. The crew is in very good health. They have entered the airship since June last year.

Astronauts communicate with the outside world via e-mail and video messages, sometimes the way communication is slowed down to look like reality. They use canned foods like the ones provided to ISS International Space Station and only once a week.

The 3.6m-wide, 20m-long spaceship consists of 6 small bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen, a toilet, a laboratory and a greenhouse, located at a parking lot in Moscow, near a group home. Through 233 days in the test environment, no astronaut intends to give up even though they sometimes feel tired. As planned, on 12 February 2011, six astronauts will land on Mars and spend two days researching the surface, after which they will return to the ship and make the journey back to Earth.

According to the Daily Mail , a simulated Mars-based test was conducted by the Moscow Institute of Medical and Biological Problems Research, in collaboration with the European Space Agency and China's Space Training Center. The crew includes: Romain Charles (31 years old, French), Diego Urbina (27 years old, Italian) - both practice engineers; Wang Yue (26 years old, a member of China Space Training Center); simulated flight captain Alexey Sitev and two other Russians, Sukhrob Kamonov (32 years old) with doctor Alexander Smoleyevsky (33 years old).