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Mission to Mars: How Space Agencies are Preparing

Landing on Mars is the easy part—what's hard is spending the better part of a year getting there. Josh Dzieza on the grueling 256-day simulation astronauts are enduring.

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Members of the Mars500 crew wave before being locked inside the Mars500 isolation facility in Moscow on June 3, 2010. (Credit: Oleg Voloshin / IBMP)

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