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Want to go to Mars? Dennis Tito will take you there…

Computer generated image of Mars at daybreak. Credit: {link url="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery/pia14293.html"}NASA/JPL-Caltech{/link}

…as long as you’re part of an older, married couple with amazing mechanical skills, great long term resilience, and relaxed attitude towards being exposed to high levels of radiation. Storify of today’s Inspiration Mars press conference: [View the story "Want to go to Mars? Dennis Tito will take you there" on Storify] Want to go [...]

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What a fake Mars mission says about our own sleep habits

On 'Mars'. Credit: {link url="http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2011/02/Marswalk_training"}ESA/IPMB{/link}

On 4 November 2011, six men emerged from a windowless capsule based on the site of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, Russia. They had been inside their spaceship for 520 days, enough time to (optimistically) go to Mars and back. They carried out the same kinds of activities and experiments that any astronauts [...]

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