Citizens of 28 countries apply to join Mars-500 experiment

People from 28 countries have applied for participation in an experiment intended to simulate a flight to Mars, which will take place at the Moscow-based Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the institute's spokesman told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.

"Two hundred of the applications received meet the requirements announced by the institute. Nineteen of them are from women," he said.

Seventy applications have come from Russia, eight from Ukraine, five from Belarus, seven from the United States, three from the United Kingdom, three from Iran, and all the rest from Armenia, Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Colombia, Latvia, Mexico, Estonia, and other countries, the spokesman said.

Interfax-AVN, July 11, 2007
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