I get claustrophobic just reading this:
WANTED: six multinational volunteers ready to spend just under two years in a dimly lit, confined space pretending to be cosmonauts without alcohol, cigarettes and possibly sex.
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“Blast-off” in a mock-up of a Russian spaceship that will never leave its Moscow hangar is scheduled for autumn of 2007, and crew applications are already flooding in.
The “spacecraft” was first built in the 1970s as part of the Soviet space programme, and will be fitted with CCTV cameras and microphones