 |  ISS Plans Week-Long Simulated Mars Mission
 11 April 2011
Front-line ISS managers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are inserting a week-
long partial simulation of a deep-space exploration mission into regular station
planning for next summer, using the orbiting laboratory as an analog for a long-
distance spaceship. Under a programme called ISS as a Testbed for Analog
Research (Istar), the exploration, space station and mission operations
organisations at JSC are using some in-house programs to see how well the station
will work as a stand-in for a long-duration vehicle en route to Mars or an asteroid.
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