4 people sign up to live in a locked bunker for 200 days to experience space travel
 

4 people sign up to live in a locked bunker for 200 days to experience space travel
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For the better part of the next year, these students will have a taste of the rigours of being onboard a space station.

On Sunday, four students from the Beijing's University of Aeronautics and Astronautics embarked on a 200-day stay in a space station simulator.

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The students will live in the locked bunker named the Lunar Palace, which measures 160 square meters (1,720 square foot), and is meant to simulate living conditions in a space-based laboratory.

The students will live solely on the resources in the bunker, getting oxygen from plants and recycling urine to produce drinking water. Read more...

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