Preparing astronauts for a journey to the red planet has become NASA's research priority for the International Space Station. But such experiments will need more than the skeleton crew now running the station. Tony Reichhardt reports.
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Reichhardt, T. Testing times. Nature 436, 902–903 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436902a
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