During a press conference organize today at the IBMP headquarters in Moscow, the composition of the main candidates was announced:
Main crew 105 days:
Sergeii Riazhanski - RU
Oleg Artemev - RU
Alexeii Baranowski - RU
Alexeii Shpakov - RU
Oliver Knickel - D
Cyrille Fournier - Fr
Backup Crew 105 days:
Cedric Mabilotte - Fr
Arc'hanmael Gaillard - Fr
Starting from January 26th 2009, the crew members gathered in Moscow to start training at Star City Center. There begins a 2 months period leading the members towards the 105 days simulation planned to start on March 31st.
More details soon to be published ...
The European Union and the Russian Federation launched a partnership progam for the simulation of SpaceFlight to Mars.
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- Cedric Mabilotte selected to participate to EU/CIS MARS500 Human Spaceflight to Mars Simulation Programme