{"id":598,"date":"2010-05-12T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/misery-of-the-fake-mars-mission.html"},"modified":"2010-05-12T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:48:13","slug":"misery-of-the-fake-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/misery-of-the-fake-mars-mission.html","title":{"rendered":"Misery of the fake Mars mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sounds horrible: six crewmen will have to live in a small space capsule for 520 days, so scientists can observe the psychological effects of a mission to Mars.<\/a> They’ll even have to eat food stored on board from Day One. Can you imagine? As Boing Boing says<\/a>, they have all the down side of a Mars mission, without the fun and fame of actually having gone to the red planet. Below, a short look at what would happen to me after about three days in that claustrophobe’s hell:<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This sounds horrible: six crewmen will have to live in a small space capsule for 520 days, so scientists can observe the psychological effects of a mission to Mars. They’ll even have to eat food stored on board from Day One. Can you imagine? 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