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Project SIRIUS – Russia’s 360-Day Simulated Space Journey Begins Soon

By Leonard David

SpaceRef

November 13, 2023

Filed under SIRIUS, SIRIUS-23

Project SIRIUS – Russia’s 360-Day Simulated Space Journey Begins Soon — Simulated space ship is at the core of the SIRIUS-23 mission in a 360-day isolation experiment.

Image credit: IBMP.

This week, Russia will launch stage 4 of the SIRIUS Project, a 360-day isolation of individuals to mimic flight conditions of interplanetary space flight.

The ongoing series of SIRIUS missions is being done under the auspices of the renowned Institute for Bio-Medical Problems (IBMP) under the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Leonard David

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration - all published by the National Geographic Society.