Mars 500
ESA TV Exchanges
The project, called Mars-500, due to start in 2008 will recreate all the phases of a mission to Mars. Six volunteers will remain confined in six modules of a mock-up ground-based spaceship: living quarters with individual cabins, an exercise room and storage area for food and supplies, a bio-medical and laboratory area and one recreating the Martian surface.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS53417.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/MARS500_DV_01-10-07_wmphigh.wmv

Mars-500 confinement simulation
01:00:00 A-Roll start
01:00:40 Just off a busy street in central Moscow, there are living quarters like no other on Earth. For within the Institute of Biomedical Problems, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, engineers and scientists are completing the construction of a mock-up spaceship which will simulate a voyage to Mars.
01:01:01 Going to the Red Planet is no longer a far-off dream. Scenarios for such a mission, in the second half of this century, are already being planned - taking into account the great challenge of individuals who will have to live together, confined for over 16 months.
01:01:19 Clip ñ 1968 footage from IBMP archives (in Russian) ""Great God! A year, such a long year... me, a doctor like so many others... I should be in a hospital, or beside my expectant wife. But what am I doing here?""
01:01:37 Three men in a container for a year, constantly being filmed... the footage dates back to 1968. It was the first ever simula