Isolation facility

That layout corresponds to this series of tubes in the IBMP facility in Moscow.

This will be the entirety of the landscape for the current six-man Mars500 crew for 520 days, or about 17 months. Last summer, the Mars500 project wrapped up a warm-up stay with a different sextet, who occupied the isolation facility for 105 days. That crew's warm-and-fuzzy public diary entries gave the impression that the three-and-a-half-month stay was no more stressful than a suburban sleepover.