Mars500 bedroom

Wood paneling in space? We're guessing this won't be the actual decor in the Mars-bound spacecraft. But quarters will certainly be tight. The metal tanks for the current project were planned to provide only about 200 square meters of space.

In ESA's public journal for the Mars500 project, Knickel wrote on April 7: "We all slept very well during our first nights, not waking up for anything, although in the crew quarters you can actually hear all sounds from anywhere in the module, even if the doors are closed. I realised that in order to fit in the bed I have to open the door of the wardrobe behind my bed since both the bed and me are exactly 1.85 m long. But while sleeping you need a little more space than your usual body height because of the feet not being in a 90 degree angle to the legs, as when standing, so I would need 1.95 m, which is only possible if I open the wardrobe behind the bed and sleep with my head between my books and folders."