On February 25 in IBMP degustation session began, the aim of which is presentation for assessment of the investigators of the whole assortment of products, from which it is supposed to create individually-oriented food ration for the crew.

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On February 25 Institute of biomedical problems has visited representatives of German aerospace agency (DLR) - director of space programs Christoph Hohage, specialist on international cooperation Rainder Scharenberg, program manager Peter Graf and manager Michael Turk visited Institute for biomedical problems. The aim of the visit was familiarization with the ground-based experimental facility "Mars-500".

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“Mars-500” project got close to the beginning of the main stage – 520-day isolation.
The experiment on simulation of a manned flight to the Red planet, conducted by State scientific center of the Russian Federation – Institute for biomedical problems of RAS under the auspices of Roscosmos and Russian academy of sciences with wide international participation, consists of three main stages. The first two stages of the experiment, with the duration of 14 and 105 days of complete isolation were finished successfully in 2009.
For preparation of the third, main stage of the program “Mars-500” – 520-day experiment, the Institute has selected a team of volunteers... >> read full story

Two conference in December:

1. Conference on Biomedical Issues on Long Lasting Manned Mission - Pisa, December 8-9, 2009

Detailed program can be looked here.

2. Workshop "Nutrition And Health Status Monitoring In Human Space Missions", Bologna, December 10th, 2009

Detailed program can be looked here.

We have opened an official blog - http://imbp-mars500.livejournal.com/

105-day isolation Experiment has been finished on July, 14th, 2009.

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