Sukhrob Komolov has birthday today. Almost all his family came to say happy birthday to him: his mother, his wife and his childrens. In addition Sukhrob received congratulations from the leading specialists of the Project.

Roman Charles has birthday today. His friend Lise-Loup Antoniadis, scientific consultant of the Embassy of France, came to say happy birthday to him.

Photogallery updated: "Living in isolation, as it is. Part 2".

40^th day of the experiment. Scientific equipment is in operable condition. Clarification for implementation of special experiments is carried out. Deviations of health and psychological status of the crew members are not found out, there are no failures of life-support system performance.

The distance between the Earth and space vehicle is 976 140 km and the distance between space vehicle and Mars is 284 777 000 km.

Today the mother of Sukhrob Kamolov visited the experimental facility in frame of work of the psychological support group. Nadezhda Grigorievna came to see how her son is going on far from his relatives.

Yesterday Cyrille Fournier and Sergey Ryazanskiy (participants of the previous stage – 105-day isolation) visited the facility.

29^th day of the experiment. Scientific equipment is in operable condition. Clarification for implementation of special experiments is carried out. Deviations of health and psychological status of the crew members are not found out, there are no failures of life-support system performance.

The distance between the Earth and space vehicle is 300 000 km and the distance between space vehicle and Mars is 297 670 000 km.

Photogallery updated: "Living in isolation, as it is. Part 2".

As at 22 th day of flight scientific equipment for carrying out of the experiments is in operable condition. Clarification for implementation of special experiments is carried out.

Deviations of health and psychological status of the crew members are not found out. After the 1st week of the flight recommendations for the correction of nutrition energy value was given to each crew member on the basis of body weight dynamics.

As at 15 th day of flight scientific equipment for carrying out of the experiments is in operable condition. Deviations of health and psychological status of the crew members are not found out. As for life-support system condition there are no criticisms on their performance. There were no any off-nominal situations.

NVIDIA Corporation has been selected for audio and video communication between a group of landing and the crew on orbit in 3D mode. As the solution for experiencing stereoscopic 3D graphics, 3D Vision will help the cosmonauts immerse themselves in a virtual Martian reality, as well as relax during their leisure time. The depth and quality of graphics made possible the experiment reproduce the psychological effects of key mission operations, from blast-off and landing to expeditions on the planet’s surface.

The first two weeks of the flight has passed. The crew grew roots in cabins and in the spaceship, makes an inventory, actively learns medicine equipment, which are required for further in-depth medical tests.

The experiment of 520-day isolation started.

Photos can be looked here.

Start of 520-day isolation - June 3, 2010.

Photos from press conference on the announcement of the crew of 520-day isolation can be looked here.

Photogallery updated: "Training to experimental techniques for 520-day isolations".

On April 27 trainings were conducted of the participants of "Mars-500" experiment at the "Paraflighter" test-bench of Scientific-production enterprise "Aeroecology" near Tushinskiy aerodrome.

The training was conducted by the head of the department of psychology and psycho-physiology of the institute, Doctor of medical sciences, professor, honoured physician of the RF Yuriy Bubeev.

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In the framework of the project "Mars-500" , the company "Kortes", ISV-partner of Motorola in Russia, delivered the system of address calculation of commodities and materials "Kortes: Address storehouse" and accompanying equipment for this system. Using special terminals of data collection of Motorola, members of the international crew during all 520-days of the experiment will be able without difficulty to find necessary things in the catalogue, determine their place of storage, calculate the used things, move them between the cells, and also conduct inventory and discard unfit for use things.

The picture story can be looked here.

On YouTube has opened a official videoportal project "Mars-500" – http://www.youtube.com/mars500project

Remember that the project has a blog in LiveJournal - http://imbp-mars500.livejournal.com/

During two days, from March 17 to 18, on the territory of JSC "Scientific-production enterprise Zvezda" trying on was conducted of the space suits "Orlan-E" that will be used in 520-day experiment for imitation of going to the Martian surface.

"Orlan-E" space suit is a special lightweight modification of the space suit "Orlan-M" designed for "Mars-500" project. It does not have a real life support system - it was substituted with the ventilation system (that in conditions of simulation allows to work during several hours).

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During two days, from March 10 to 11, on the territory of the recreation facility of the Russian state university of physical culture "Pokrovskaya" in Odintsovo region trainings were held on surviving of the candidates for participation in 520-day isolation.

The head of the surviving program -head of the psychology department of IBMP Yuriy Bubeev.

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In the frameworks of preparation for 520-day isolation in IBMP a meeting was held of the volunteers with the Russian Grand master, ex-champion of the world Anatoly Karpov. Anatoly Evgenievich got familiar with the volunteers and read a general awareness-raising lecture on chess.

The director of A. E. Karpov's chess school, Vladimir Kraushkin, will teach the candidates all the nuances of the game.

During 520-day isolation, in the frameworks of psychological support of the crew, a tournament between Anatoly Karpov and the team of the Martian ship will be conducted.

The picture story can be looked here.

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.

The picture story can be looked here.