Date: February 14, 2011
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110214-mars500-landed-mars-walk-esa-russia-experiments-space-science/
This article is about six astronauts who are part of a team that is simulating a journey to Mars. The astronauts stay for 9 months in a little room that simulates the space ship. The purpose of this experiment is to see for how much time can they resist in the space ship because going to Mars is very far so the scientists want to do the test and make sure that the astronauts stay healthy both physically and mentally. The astronauts have been in this "ship"since June 2010 until now, February 2011. A few days ago they are arrived to "Mars" or to a room decorated like a Mars. They have to stay there for two weeks to take test of the ground. In February 22, 2011 they "came" to the Earth and now they have to wait about 200 days.
The article interested me because before reading the article I didn't know the NASA astronauts are practicing and preparing to go to Mars. I didn't know that Mars is so far away and that it takes such a long time.
The article has a connection with my life because we didn't think we had the possibility to go to other planets. The people think when the world is destroy we can go to Mars to living there but first they have to investigate to know if we can live on Mars.
