![Mars-500 flight simulation starts in Moscow](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F38%2F39%2F383948_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_UnVzbGFuIEtyaXZvYm9rICMzODM5NDg%3D_116%3A95_sputnik-383948-preview_b4b4fb3bb32687e71c923cce9d205647.jpg)
![Mars-500 flight simulation starts in Moscow](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F38%2F39%2F383948_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_UnVzbGFuIEtyaXZvYm9rICMzODM5NDg%3D_116%3A95_sputnik-383948-preview_b4b4fb3bb32687e71c923cce9d205647.jpg)
From left: Mars-500 crew commander Sergei Ryazansky, oncologist Alexei Baranov, sports physiologist Alexei Shpakov, Air France pilot Cyrille Fournier, German mechanical engineer Oliver Knickel and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev standing outside the mock-up grounded spaceship installed at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. The Mars-500 international simulated space mission will last for 105 days.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 31.03.2009
- Date published: 31.03.2009
- Author: Ruslan Krivobok
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3888x2592px, 1.8Mb