Space team readies for year-plus in isolation

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37215817/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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From the article:

Six men from Russia, Europe and China are preparing to spend 520 days together in a sealed-off warren to take a simulated trip to Mars to test how long isolation would affect humans.

If humans weren't complete dicks to one another, we would've been on Mars/completed our 2nd mission to the Moon/built a space elevator by now. Anyway, we're looking at history in the making here.