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Raw video: Mars flight simulation experiment

AP - Wed Jul 15, 1:56 AM ET

Russian engineers have broken a red wax seal and 6 men emerged from a metal hatch beaming and waving after 105 days of isolation in a Soviet-era mock spacecraft testing the stresses space travelers may one day face on the journey to Mars. (July 15)

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