Are you thinking of a gap year

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Are you thinking of a gap year or more precisely 520days and want something unique then I give you this..

LE BOURGET, France (AFP) - The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth.
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Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in an research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut off from all contact with the outside world except by a delayed radio link.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070619/tsc-space-mars-europe-4de741d.html

That would be kind off cool.
 
Apparently out of the 150 applications only 19 of them were women - this deal is getting worse by the minute.
 
Scuzi said:
120 euro a day? No thanks. If it was 500 euro a day I'd think about it.

Thats good pay as you can't spend any.

HEADRAT said:
Will there be an equal mix of men/women ?

HEADRAT
it would be simulating a mission, so it depends what the mission is, but I would have thought it would be nearly 50/50.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Thats good pay as you can't spend any.
It's not really, it's quite crap. It equates to about roughly £40k which over 17 months is about ~£28k a year.

Considering that you are effectively locked up for 17 months being constantly monitored and the potential psychological implications, the money is crap.
 
Scuzi said:
It's not really, it's quite crap. It equates to about roughly £40k which over 17 months is about ~£28k a year.

Considering that you are effectively locked up for 17 months being constantly monitored and the potential psychological implications, the money is crap.


yhe, but it's 40k sitting in the bank, you would need like a 80k job on the outside to even attempt saving that much money.

depends how you work it out,

if it's per hour, then it's crap.

If its funds available to you after 18months, then it's great.
 
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