520 days with a bunch of guys...

Not my idea of fun.. but i guess if you're planning on going to Mars at some point..

A manned mission to Mars may be decades away, but an international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themselves up in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half — the time needed for a roundtrip to the red planet.

 The all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese won't endure weightlessness, but from Thursday they will live for 520 days in the spartan conditions of a mock spaceship and follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise

Hope it has better luck than the previous one..

A similar experiment in 1999-2000 at the same Moscow institute went awry when a Canadian woman complained of being forcibly kissed by a Russian team captain and said that two Russian crew members had a fist fight that left blood splattered on the walls.

 Russian officials downplayed the incidents, attributing it to cultural gaps and stress.

I think the woman involved thought it was the fact that there wasn't enough of a gap...