The main stages of the experiment:

  • "flight" on the route Earth-Mars - 250 days;
  • staying on the "Martian surface" of 3 crewmembers - up to 30 days (before the "landing on Mars" these crewmembers will stay during up to 30 days in conditions of antiorthostatic hypokinesia);
  • "flight" on the route Mars-Earth - 240 days.