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Oliver Knickel, a mechanical engineer in the German army (second from right), and airline pilot Cyrille Fournier from France (right) were selected as the two European participants in a 105-day isolation study. They joined three Russians on a three-day survival exercise in the woods near Star City, the Russian centre for cosmonaut training near Moscow.

(Image: ESA)

Read an interview with Pascal Lee, who discusses what it was like to spend 402 days in a research station in Antarctica.

GOT a house mate who’s driving you crazy? Try being cooped up together for 105 days straight in windowless metal canisters.…

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