«Mars-500» project

«Mars-500» project
Simulation of a manned flight to Mars

What is being spoken about “Mars-500” project?

Ground-based simulation investigations are very important for solving of urgent tasks of space medicine. They plaid an important role in substantiation of possibility of increasing of duration and reliability of space expeditions.

Simulation experiments allow to assess the concept of biomedical support of the crew of the spaceship under development or the concrete mission, assess meaning of separate factors of a space flight in changing of state of health and working capacity of the crew members, obtain necessary data for development of biomedical requirements for manned spaceships.

Mars seems to be the unique planet for investigation of issues of Solar system planets evolution, prognosis of Earth and its biosphere development. But the main thing is that Mars is the only planet that is promising from the point of view of human settlement. Perhaps, it is this that is the most important purpose of human flight to Mars in the interests of preservation of Earth civilization.

Vice-president of Russian Academy of sciences,
scientific head of SSC RF – IBMP RAS,
Academician Grigoriev A. I.

Mars attracted attention to itself as early as at Ancient times. The processes that go on on Mars are very similar to the ones that go on on Earth. That is why Mars exploration allows to determine regularities of these processes and form more adequate prognosis of their development on Earth.

Mars exploration as a difficult task, all countries possessing advanced technologies will participate in solving of this task in this or that degree. Russian has accumulated great intellectual and technological potential for organization of manned flights to Mars.

Flight to Mars is becoming more real, and orbital stations play a great role in preparation of such a flight.

Head of
Federal space Agency of Russia, Perminov A. N.

Russian has unique experience of conduction of human long-term space flights, support of continuous effective work on near-Earth orbit with the duration of more than a year.

During the development of the strategy and planning of a manned expedition to Mars the human factor becomes a priority, and man becomes the most valuable and vulnerable unit of the mission to a great extent determining possibility of realization of the project in whole.

In SSC RF – IBMP RAS great experience has been accumulated of conduction of long-term investigations, simulating combined influence on humans of space flight factors.

The unique experimental facility including the unique in the word set of hermetical modules with controlled habitat will allow to conduct investigation in conditions that are maximally close to the real conditions of a manned Martian expedition.

Director of SSC RF – IBMP RAS,
Corresponding Member of RAS,
Full Member of RAMS,
Ushakov I. B.